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Record ID 38334
Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16480 (1732-1790, Type: Town). Page: 23r
Dodoens New Herball
Borrowed: 1748/8/30 (Friday). Original Borrowed Date: August 30th 1748. Original Borrower: [covered up].
Unknown 30 August 1748
Gender: Unknown.
Rembert Dodoens (Male, born 1517, died 1585)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A new herball, or historie of plants: wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of herbes and plants: their diuers and sundrie kindes: their names, natures, operations, & vertues: and that not onely of those which are heere growing in this our countrie of England but of al others also of forraine realms commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Dutch or Almaigne toong, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, phisition to the Emperor: and now first translated out of French into English, by Henrie Lyte Esquier.
Confidence level: Certain
Rembert Dodoens (Male, born 1517, died 1585)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A new herball, or historie of plants: wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of herbes and plants: their diuers and sundrie kindes: their names, natures, operations, & vertues: and that not onely of those which are heere growing in this our countrie of England but of al others also of forraine realms commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Dutch or Almaigne toong, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, phisition to the Emperor: and now first translated out of French into English, by Henrie Lyte Esquier. [S109768]
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1595. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 4
ESTC: S109768
Rembert Dodoens (Male, born 1517, died 1585)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New Herball, or Historie of Plants
Borrowed: 1748/8/30 (Friday).
Borrower: Unknown 30 August 1748
Author: Rembert Dodoens (Male, born 1517, died 1585), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 38811
Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16480 (1732-1790, Type: Town). Page: 79v
Dodoneus New Herball
Borrowed: 1768/9/24 (Saturday). Original Borrowed Date: Septr 24. Original Borrower: Q. Gordone.
Q Gordone
Gender: Unknown.
Rembert Dodoens (Male, born 1517, died 1585)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A new herball, or historie of plants: wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of herbes and plants: their diuers and sundrie kindes: their names, natures, operations, & vertues: and that not onely of those which are heere growing in this our countrie of England but of al others also of forraine realms commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Dutch or Almaigne toong, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, phisition to the Emperor: and now first translated out of French into English, by Henrie Lyte Esquier.
Confidence level: Certain
Rembert Dodoens (Male, born 1517, died 1585)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A new herball, or historie of plants: wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of herbes and plants: their diuers and sundrie kindes: their names, natures, operations, & vertues: and that not onely of those which are heere growing in this our countrie of England but of al others also of forraine realms commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Dutch or Almaigne toong, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, phisition to the Emperor: and now first translated out of French into English, by Henrie Lyte Esquier. [S109768]
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1595. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 4
ESTC: S109768
Rembert Dodoens (Male, born 1517, died 1585)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New Herball, or Historie of Plants
Borrowed: 1768/9/24 (Saturday).
Borrower: Q Gordone
Author: Rembert Dodoens (Male, born 1517, died 1585), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 39464
Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16480 (1732-1790, Type: Town). Page: 118v
Fergusons Astronomy
Borrowed: 1784/4/19 (Monday). Original Borrowed Date: 19 April 84. Original Borrower: Ja:.
Unknown 19 April 1784
Gender: Unknown.
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics. To which are added, a plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the Transit of Venus over the Sun’s disc, in the Year 1761. An Account of Mr. Horrox’s Observation of the Transit of Venus in the Year 1639: and, Of the distances of all the planets from the Sun, as deduced from observations of the transit in the Year 1761. By James Ferguson, F. R. S.
Modern Shelfmark: NLS Special Collections Gray.1350.
Confidence level: Certain
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1772. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 58
ESTC: T18581
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles
Borrowed: 1784/4/19 (Monday).
Borrower: Unknown 19 April 1784
Author: James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 39525
Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16480 (1732-1790, Type: Town). Page: 122r
Spect. of Nature vol. 1st
Borrowed: 1785/1/17 (Monday). Original Borrowed Date: 17th. Original Borrower: E. Johnstone.
E. Johnstone
Gender: Unknown.
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la nature: or, Nature display’d. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history, as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth. Illustrated with copper plates. Translated from the original French by Mr. Humphreys.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Confidence level: Speculative
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la nature: or, Nature display’d. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history, as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth. Illustrated with copper plates. Translated from the original French by Mr. Humphreys.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1750. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 7 vols.
Translators: Humphreys, Mr
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 153 times in 91 borrowing records
ESTC: N24037
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display’d
Borrowed: 1785/1/17 (Monday).
Borrower: E. Johnstone
Author: Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761), Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display’d
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 41274
Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16481 (1790-1816, Type: Town). Page: 30r
Fergussons Mechanical exercises
Borrowed: 1809/4/26 (Wednesday). Original Borrowed Date: 26. Original Borrower: A Cockburn.
A. Cockburn
Gender: Unknown.
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles. With several miscellaneous articles; and new tables, I. For expeditiously computing the Time of any new or full moon within the Limits of 6000 Years before and after the 18th Century. II. For graduating and examining the usual Lines on the sector, plain scale, and Gunter. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author. By James Ferguson, F.R.S.
Confidence level: Certain
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1773. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T146642
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Select Mechanical Exercises: Shewing how to Construct Different Clocks, Orreries, and Sun-Dials
Borrowed: 1809/4/26 (Wednesday).
Borrower: A. Cockburn
Author: James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Select Mechanical Exercises: Shewing how to Construct Different Clocks, Orreries, and Sun-Dials
Record ID 42265
Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16481 (1790-1816, Type: Town). Page: 70v
Bacon's History of Life & Death
Borrowed: 1812/12/9 (Wednesday). Original Borrowed Date: 9. Original Borrower: A. Maclaurin.
A. Maclaurin
Gender: Unknown.
Francis Bacon (Male, born 1561, died 1626)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Sylva sylvarum: or, A natural history. In ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the history naturall and experimentall of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. Both written by the right honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by William Ravvley Doctor in Divinity one of his Majesties chaplains. Hereunto is now added an alphabetical table of the principall things contained in the ten centuries.
Modern Shelfmark: NLS Special Collections Gray.598.
Confidence level: Very likely
Francis Bacon (Male, born 1561, died 1626)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Sylva sylvarum: or, A natural history. In ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the history naturall and experimentall of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. Both written by the right honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by William Ravvley Doctor in Divinity one of his Majesties chaplains. Hereunto is now added an alphabetical table of the principall things contained in the ten centuries. [R27204]
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1658. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: 1
ESTC: R27204
Francis Bacon (Male, born 1561, died 1626)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Sylva Sylvarum: or A Natural Historie
Borrowed: 1812/12/9 (Wednesday).
Borrower: A. Maclaurin
Author: Francis Bacon (Male, born 1561, died 1626), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 42291
Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16481 (1790-1816, Type: Town). Page: 71r
Spectacle of Nature Vol. 6.
Borrowed: 1813/1/7 (Thursday). Original Borrowed Date: 7. Original Borrower: A. Maclaurin.
A. Maclaurin
Gender: Unknown.
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la nature: or, Nature display’d. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history, as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth. Illustrated with copper plates. Translated from the original French by Mr. Humphreys.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 6
Confidence level: Speculative
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la nature: or, Nature display’d. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history, as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth. Illustrated with copper plates. Translated from the original French by Mr. Humphreys.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1750. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 7 vols.
Translators: Humphreys, Mr
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 153 times in 91 borrowing records
ESTC: N24037
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display’d
Borrowed: 1813/1/7 (Thursday).
Borrower: A. Maclaurin
Author: Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761), Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display’d
Volumes borrowed: Volume 6
Record ID 42848
Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16481 (1790-1816, Type: Town). Page: 89r
Ferguson's Tracts
Borrowed: 1815/3/29 (Wednesday). Original Borrowed Date: ". Original Borrower: S. Grieve.
S. Grieve
Gender: Unknown.
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Tables and tracts, relative to several arts and sciences. By James Ferguson, F. R. S.
Confidence level: Certain
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Tables and tracts, relative to several arts and sciences. By James Ferguson, F. R. S. [T53439]
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1771. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 9
ESTC: T53439
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Tables and Tracts, Relative to Several Arts and Sciences
Borrowed: 1815/3/29 (Wednesday).
Borrower: S. Grieve
Author: James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 305254
Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1788-1791. (UYLY207-9) (1788-1791, Type: Student). Page: 39
Hunters Animal Œconomy
Borrowed: 1788/6/18 (Wednesday). Classmark: BB4. 5.
Thomas Melville
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
J Fraser
Gender: Unknown. Borrower type: Other.
John Hunter (Male, born 1728, died 1793)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Observations on certain parts of the animal oeconomy. By John Hunter.
Classmark: BB4.5.
Confidence level: Certain
John Hunter (Male, born 1728, died 1793)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Observations on certain parts of the animal oeconomy.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1786. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 12
ESTC: T54043
John Hunter (Male, born 1728, died 1793)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy
Borrowed: 1788/6/18 (Wednesday).
Borrowers: Thomas Melville , J Fraser
Author: John Hunter (Male, born 1728, died 1793), Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 63784
Library: Wigtown Subscription Library. Register: MS 11/29 (Type: Town). Page: 93
Edin r:Cab. Library
Borrowed: 1830/12/7 (Tuesday). Returned: 1830/12/14 (Tuesday).
Burgh of Wigtown
Gender: Unknown.
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Travel
The Edinburgh Cabinet Library.
Volumes borrowed: Volume Unspecified
Confidence level: Certain
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Travel
The Edinburgh Cabinet Library.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1830-c.1848. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 63
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Travel
Edinburgh Cabinet Library
Borrowed: 1830/12/7 (Tuesday). Returned: 1830/12/14 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Burgh of Wigtown
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Travel
Volumes borrowed: Volume Unspecified
Record ID 76841
Library: Wigtown Subscription Library. Register: MS 11/30 (Type: Town). Page: 40r
Bridgewater Treatise
Borrowed: 1836/11/5 (Saturday). Returned: 1836/11/5 (Saturday). Notes: Per Mr Waugh.
Burgh of Wigtown
Gender: Unknown.
Sir Charles Bell (Male, born 1774, died 1842), Thomas Chalmers (Male, born 1780, died 1847), John Kidd (Male, born 1775, died 1851)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1 V1 The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution / Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1 V2 The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution / Thomas Chalmers, Volume 2: On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man. / John Kidd, Volume 4: The hand. Its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design. / Sir Charles Bell
Confidence level: Speculative
Sir Charles Bell (Male, born 1774, died 1842), Thomas Chalmers (Male, born 1780, died 1847), John Kidd (Male, born 1775, died 1851)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1833-1836. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 37 times in 26 borrowing records
Sir Charles Bell (Male, born 1774, died 1842), Thomas Chalmers (Male, born 1780, died 1847), John Kidd (Male, born 1775, died 1851)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation
Borrowed: 1836/11/5 (Saturday). Returned: 1836/11/5 (Saturday).
Borrower: Burgh of Wigtown
Author: Sir Charles Bell (Male, born 1774, died 1842), Thomas Chalmers (Male, born 1780, died 1847), John Kidd (Male, born 1775, died 1851), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1 V1 The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution / Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1 V2 The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution / Thomas Chalmers, Volume 2: On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man. / John Kidd, Volume 4: The hand. Its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design. / Sir Charles Bell