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Record ID 91307
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.5 (1768-1781, Type: Professorial). Page: 22-23
Borrow'd Philosophical Transactions Abridged Vol. 1.st
Borrowed: 1770/2/17 (Saturday). Loan period: return on demand.
James Hamilton
Gender: Male.
Royal Society (Great Britain) (Unspecified, born 1660)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Periodicals
The philosophical transactions and collections, : to the end of the year MDCC, abridged and disposed under general heads.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Confidence level: Certain
Royal Society (Great Britain) (Unspecified, born 1660)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Periodicals
The philosophical transactions and collections, to the end of the year MDCC, abridged and disposed under general heads.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1749. Format: 8vo.
Editors: Lowthorp, John.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 31 times in 16 borrowing records
ESTC: T199443
Royal Society (Great Britain) (Unspecified, born 1660)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Periodicals
Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the End of the Year MDCC, Abridged and Disposed under General Heads
Borrowed: 1770/2/17 (Saturday).
Borrower: James Hamilton
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain) (Unspecified, born 1660), Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Periodicals
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 94538
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 3
Nollet Art des Experiences en 3 tomes
Borrowed: 1771/2/15 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
James Hall
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet (Male, born 1700, died 1770)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
L'art des expériences [Nollet].
Confidence level: Certain
Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet (Male, born 1700, died 1770)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
L'Art des expériences, ou Avis aux amateurs de la physique, sur le choix, la construction et l'usage des instruments ; sur la préparation et l'emploi des drogues qui servent aux expériences.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1770. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 1
Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet (Male, born 1700, died 1770)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Art des Expériences, ou Avis aux Amateurs de la Physique, sur le Choix, la Construction et l'Usage des Instruments
Borrowed: 1771/2/15 (Friday).
Borrower: James Hall
Author: Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet (Male, born 1700, died 1770), Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Record ID 94592
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 5
Bacon Novum Organon
Borrowed: 1771/2/16 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/2/0.
Andrew Peddie
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Francis Bacon (Male, born 1561, died 1626)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Instauratio magna. [Sive Novum organum. Lib. I. II. Et Parasceve, ad historiam naturalem et experimentalem].
Confidence level: Certain
Francis Bacon (Male, born 1561, died 1626)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Francisci de Verulamio, summi Angliæ Cancellarij, Instauratio magna.
Language: Latin . Published: London. Date of publication: 1620. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: 3
ESTC: S120789
Francis Bacon (Male, born 1561, died 1626)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Instauratio Magna [Francis Bacon]
Borrowed: 1771/2/16 (Saturday).
Borrower: Andrew Peddie
Author: Francis Bacon (Male, born 1561, died 1626), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 94583
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 5
Desagulier's System Vol. 2:d
Borrowed: 1771/2/16 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
Abraham Nivison
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
John Theophilus Desaguliers (Male, born 1683-3-12, died 1744-2-29)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A system of experimental philosophy [Desaguliers].
Confidence level: Certain
John Theophilus Desaguliers (Male, born 1683-3-12, died 1744-2-29)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A system of experimental philosophy, prov’d by mechanicks.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1719. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T135774
John Theophilus Desaguliers (Male, born 1683-3-12, died 1744-2-29)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
System of Experimental Philosophy, Prov’d by Mechanicks
Borrowed: 1771/2/16 (Saturday).
Borrower: Abraham Nivison
Author: John Theophilus Desaguliers (Male, born 1683-3-12, died 1744-2-29), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 94661
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 7
Boyle's Excellence of Theology
Borrowed: 1771/2/16 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/2/0.
Thomas Dalziel
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Robert Boyle (Male, born 1627, died 1691)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
The excellency of theology, compar'd with natural philosophy, (as both are objects of men's study).
Confidence level: Certain
Robert Boyle (Male, born 1627, died 1691)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
The excellency of theology, compar’d with natural philosophy, (as both are objects of men’s study.)
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1674. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 2
ESTC: R32857
Robert Boyle (Male, born 1627, died 1691)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Excellency of Theology, Compar’d with Natural Philosophy
Borrowed: 1771/2/16 (Saturday).
Borrower: Thomas Dalziel
Author: Robert Boyle (Male, born 1627, died 1691), Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Record ID 94649
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 7
Rowning's system 2 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/2/16 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
William Robertson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): son of Principal Robertson.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
John Rowning (Male, born c.1701, died 1771)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A compendious system of natural philosophy [Rowning].
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
John Rowning (Male, born c.1701, died 1771)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A compendious system of natural philosophy.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1758. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 59 times in 36 borrowing records
ESTC: N51159
John Rowning (Male, born c.1701, died 1771)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Compendious System of Natural Philosophy
Borrowed: 1771/2/16 (Saturday).
Borrower: William Robertson
Author: John Rowning (Male, born c.1701, died 1771), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Compendious System of Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 94784
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 9
Shaw's Boerhaave's Chemistry Vol. 1.
Borrowed: 1771/2/19 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/6/0.
Dugall Campbell
Gender: Male.
Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1768. Other: Apprentice to Royal College of Surgeons, 1774.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student. Medicine and Health > Surgeon.
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New method of chemistry; including the history, theory, and practice of the art: translated from the original Latin of Dr. Boerhaave's Elementa chemiæ
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Confidence level: Certain
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A new method of chemistry; including the history, theory, and practice of the art.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1753. Format: 4to.
Editors: Shaw, Peter
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 69 times in 45 borrowing records
ESTC: N10267
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New Method of Chemistry
Borrowed: 1771/2/19 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Dugall Campbell
Author: Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 94760
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 9
Derham's Physico-Theology
Borrowed: 1771/2/19 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/5/0.
John Brown of Whitburn
Gender: Male.
Class: Arts. Academic dates: c. 1769. Other: licensed to preach, 1776; ordained 1777. Life dates: 1754-1832.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
William Derham (Male, born 1657, died 1735)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Physico-theology: or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from his works of creation.
Confidence level: Certain
William Derham (Male, born 1657, died 1735)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Physico-Theology: or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from his works of creation. Being the substance of XVI sermons Preached in St. Mary le Bow-Church, London, at the Honble Mr. Boyle’s Lectures, in the Years 1711 and 1712.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1714. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 28
ESTC: T135377
William Derham (Male, born 1657, died 1735)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Physico-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation
Borrowed: 1771/2/19 (Tuesday).
Borrower: John Brown of Whitburn
Author: William Derham (Male, born 1657, died 1735), Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Physico-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation
Record ID 94751
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 9
Chymie de Pott en 4 tomes.
Borrowed: 1771/2/19 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 5/0/0. Funds deposited: N. B. A Linen Note.
Charles Newman
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92030. Dissertation: De Dyspepsia.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dissertatione chymiques ... [Pott].
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4
Confidence level: Certain
Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dissertations chymiques ... Recueillies et traduites, tant du Latin que de l'Allemand, par M. Demachy.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1759. Format: 12mo.
Translators: Demachy, Jacques François.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 11 times in 4 borrowing records
Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dissertations Chymiques [Johann Heinrich Pott]
Borrowed: 1771/2/19 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Charles Newman
Author: Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dissertations Chymiques [Johann Heinrich Pott]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4
Record ID 94823
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 10
Ferrguson's Lectures
Borrowed: 1771/2/22 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
William Skirving
Gender: Male.
Life dates: d. 1796.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics [Ferguson]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections E.B. .5304 Fer..
Confidence level: Certain
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1764. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 51
ESTC: T53437
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics
Borrowed: 1771/2/22 (Friday).
Borrower: William Skirving
Author: James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics
Record ID 95072
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 12
Nature Displayed Vol. 4
Borrowed: 1771/2/23 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/13/0.
William Finlay
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Nature displayed. (original title)
Spectacle de la nature : or, Nature display'd. (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 4
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: 1771/2/23 (Saturday).
Borrower: William Finlay
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 4
Record ID 95138
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 13
& Cat on the Senses
Borrowed: 1771/2/25 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
W Holland
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (Male, born 1700, died 1768)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A physical essay on the senses [Le Cat].
Confidence level: Certain
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (Male, born 1700, died 1768)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A physical essay on the senses.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1750. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 2
ESTC: T117144
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (Male, born 1700, died 1768)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Physical Essay on the Senses
Borrowed: 1771/2/25 (Monday).
Borrower: W Holland
Author: Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (Male, born 1700, died 1768), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 95216
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 14
Burnet's Theory of the Earth 2 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/2/26 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/8/0.
Thomas Edgar
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Thomas Burnet (Male, born c.1635, died 1715)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Sacred theory of the earth [Burnet]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Thomas Burnet (Male, born c.1635, died 1715)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
The sacred theory of the earth: containing an account of its original creation, and of all the general changes which it hath undergone, or is to undergo, until the consummation of all things.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1759. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 61 times in 35 borrowing records
ESTC: T130098
Thomas Burnet (Male, born c.1635, died 1715)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Sacred Theory of the Earth [Thomas Burnet]
Borrowed: 1771/2/26 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Thomas Edgar
Author: Thomas Burnet (Male, born c.1635, died 1715), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Sacred Theory of the Earth [Thomas Burnet]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 95270
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 17
Franklin on Electricity
Borrowed: 1771/3/2 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/10/6.
George Pearson
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92011. Dissertation: De putredine animalibus post morteur superviente.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1771; LRCP(1784); FRS(1791) . Origin: English. Life dates: 1751-1828.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America.
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S. To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1769. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 32
ESTC: T101040
Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America
Borrowed: 1771/3/2 (Saturday).
Borrower: George Pearson
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America
Record ID 95279
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 17
Macbride's Essays
Borrowed: 1771/3/2 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.
John Stewart
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental essays on the following subjects : I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures. II. On the nature and properties of fixed air. III. On the respective powers, and manner of acting, of the different kinds of antiseptics. IV. On the scurvy; with a proposal for trying new methods to prevent or cure the same, at sea. V. On the dissolvent power of quick-lime [Macbride]
Confidence level: Certain
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental essays on the following subjects: I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures. II. On the Nature and Properties of Fixed Air. III. On the respective Powers, and Manner of Acting, of the different Kinds of Antiseptics. IV. On the Scurvy; with a Proposal for trying new Methods to prevent or cure the same, at Sea. V. On the Dissolvent Power of Quick-Lime.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1764. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 77
ESTC: N8983
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental Essays [David Macbride]
Borrowed: 1771/3/2 (Saturday).
Borrower: John Stewart
Author: David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 95264
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 17
Cronstedt's Mineralogy
Borrowed: 1771/3/2 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.
George Pearson
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92011. Dissertation: De putredine animalibus post morteur superviente.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1771; LRCP(1784); FRS(1791) . Origin: English. Life dates: 1751-1828.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (Male, born 1722, died 1765)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Cronstedt's Mineralogy (original title)
Essay towards a system of mineralogy (standardised title)
Confidence level: Certain
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (Male, born 1722, died 1765)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
An essay towards a system of mineralogy.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1770.
Translators: Engeström, Gustav von, 1738-1813
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T134557
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (Male, born 1722, died 1765)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Essay towards a System of Mineralogy
Borrowed: 1771/3/2 (Saturday).
Borrower: George Pearson
Author: Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (Male, born 1722, died 1765), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 95918
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 19
& Mar:tin's Essays
Borrowed: 1771/3/5 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
John Ricketts
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical essays, etc. [Martin]
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical essays, Containing, I. A practical description of the several sorts of single, solar, and compound microscops; with their apparatus, and latest improvments. II. The nature of vision in insects demonstrated by microscopic observations. III. A catalogue of all principal microscopic objects. IV. The use of the reflecting telescope as an universal perspective for viewing every sort of object in the greatest perfection. V. The manner of computing the magnifying power in single and double microscopes. VI. A new method of applying a micrometer to take the dimension: of small objects. VII. An illustration of the whole in a great variety of figures on a large copper-plate.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: c.1761. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 20
ESTC: T10172
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical Essays
Borrowed: 1771/3/5 (Tuesday).
Borrower: John Ricketts
Author: Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 95945
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 20
Lee's Botany
Borrowed: 1771/3/8 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/0/0.
William McClive
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85672. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1773.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
James Lee (Male, born 1715, died 1795)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to botany [Lee]
Possible modern shelfmark: Main Library - Special Collections ; E.B. .58 Lin..
Confidence level: Certain
James Lee (Male, born 1715, died 1795)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
An introduction to botany.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1765. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 26
ESTC: T81053
James Lee (Male, born 1715, died 1795)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to Botany [James Lee]
Borrowed: 1771/3/8 (Friday).
Borrower: William McClive
Author: James Lee (Male, born 1715, died 1795), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 95933
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 20
Desagulier's System Vol. 1.st
Borrowed: 1771/3/8 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
Abraham Nivison
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
John Theophilus Desaguliers (Male, born 1683-3-12, died 1744-2-29)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A system of experimental philosophy [Desaguliers].
Confidence level: Certain
John Theophilus Desaguliers (Male, born 1683-3-12, died 1744-2-29)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A system of experimental philosophy, prov’d by mechanicks.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1719. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T135774
John Theophilus Desaguliers (Male, born 1683-3-12, died 1744-2-29)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
System of Experimental Philosophy, Prov’d by Mechanicks
Borrowed: 1771/3/8 (Friday).
Borrower: Abraham Nivison
Author: John Theophilus Desaguliers (Male, born 1683-3-12, died 1744-2-29), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 95969
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 21
Ferguson's Lectures
Borrowed: 1771/3/9 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
William Skirving
Gender: Male.
Life dates: d. 1796.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics [Ferguson]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections E.B. .5304 Fer..
Confidence level: Certain
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1764. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 51
ESTC: T53437
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics
Borrowed: 1771/3/9 (Saturday).
Borrower: William Skirving
Author: James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics
Record ID 95981
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 22
Nature Displayed Vol. 5:th
Borrowed: 1771/3/9 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/13/0.
William Finlay
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Nature displayed. (original title)
Spectacle de la nature : or, Nature display'd. (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 5
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: 1771/3/9 (Saturday).
Borrower: William Finlay
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 5
Record ID 96065
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 23
Nature Displayed Vs 1-2
Borrowed: 1771/3/9 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
John Boe
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Nature displayed. (original title)
Spectacle de la nature : or, Nature display'd. (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
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: 1771/3/9 (Saturday).
Borrower: John Boe
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, Volume 2
Record ID 96125
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 24
Linæi Syst: Nat: 2 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/3/9 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2 Guineas.
Cairnoan McDowell
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85688. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1771.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnaei ... Systema naturae : per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnaei...Systema naturae per regna tria naturae :secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Language: Latin . Published: Stockholm. Date of publication: 1758-1759. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 23 times in 18 borrowing records
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Systema Naturae
Borrowed: 1771/3/9 (Saturday).
Borrower: Cairnoan McDowell
Author: Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 96137
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 24
Species Plant: 2 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/3/9 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Cairnoan McDowell
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85688. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1771.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas.
Possible modern shelfmark: Main Library - Special Collections ; *K.22.54-55.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnæi Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas secundum systema sexuale digestas.
Language: Latin . Published: Stockholm. Date of publication: 1762-1763. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 70 times in 37 borrowing records
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Species Plantarum
Borrowed: 1771/3/9 (Saturday).
Borrower: Cairnoan McDowell
Author: Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 96140
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 24
Methodus Animalium
Borrowed: 1771/3/9 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Cairnoan McDowell
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85688. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1771.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Michael Bernhard Valentini (Male, born 1657, died 1729)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Methodus animalium. (original title)
Amphitheatrum zootomicum ... exhibens historiam animalium anatomicam. (standardised title)
Confidence level: Very likely
Michael Bernhard Valentini (Male, born 1657, died 1729)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Amphitheatrum Zootomicum ... exhibens historiam animalium anatomicam. (Appendix ad Amphitheatrum Zootomicum. I. ... Methodus secandi cadavera humana ... II. S. Pauli modus dealbandi ossa pro sceletopϕa. III. J. Ravii Collegium Anatomicum.)
Language: Latin . Published: Frankfurt am Main. Date of publication: 1742. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: 1
Michael Bernhard Valentini (Male, born 1657, died 1729)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Amphitheatrum Zootomicum ... Exhibens Historiam Animalium Anatomicam
Borrowed: 1771/3/9 (Saturday).
Borrower: Cairnoan McDowell
Author: Michael Bernhard Valentini (Male, born 1657, died 1729), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Amphitheatrum Zootomicum ... Exhibens Historiam Animalium Anatomicam
Record ID 96134
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 24
Philosoph: Bot:
Borrowed: 1771/3/9 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Cairnoan McDowell
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85688. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1771.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnaei ... Philosophia botanica
Confidence level: Certain
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
C. Linnæi ... Philosophia botanica, in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica cum definitionibus partium, etc.
Language: Latin . Published: Vienna. Date of publication: 1755. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 10
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophia Botanica [Carl Linnaeus]
Borrowed: 1771/3/9 (Saturday).
Borrower: Cairnoan McDowell
Author: Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 96347
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 26
Wainewright on the Non-Naturals
Borrowed: 1771/3/18 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/1/6.
Thomas Williamson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Jeremiah Wainewright (Male, born 1673)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A mechanical account of the non-naturals [Wainewright].
Confidence level: Certain
Jeremiah Wainewright (Male, born 1673)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A mechanical account of the non-naturals: being a brief explication of the changes made in humane bodies, by air, diet, &c. Together With an Enquiry into the Nature and Use of Baths upon the same Principles. To which is prefix’d, The Doctrin of Animal Secretion in several Propositions.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1707. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 3
ESTC: T58315
Jeremiah Wainewright (Male, born 1673)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Mechanical Account of the Non-Naturals
Borrowed: 1771/3/18 (Monday).
Borrower: Thomas Williamson
Author: Jeremiah Wainewright (Male, born 1673), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 96365
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 27
Melanges de Litterature tome 2d
Borrowed: 1771/3/18 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/9/0.
George Hill
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Jean le Rond d' Alembert (Male, born 1717, died 1783)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Mélanges de littérature, d'histoire, et de philosophie.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Jean le Rond d' Alembert (Male, born 1717, died 1783)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Mélanges de Littérature, d'Histoire, et de Philosophie.
Language: French . Published: Amsterdam. Date of publication: 1759-1773. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 12 times in 5 borrowing records
Jean le Rond d' Alembert (Male, born 1717, died 1783)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Mélanges de Littérature, d'Histoire, et de Philosophie
Borrowed: 1771/3/18 (Monday).
Borrower: George Hill
Author: Jean le Rond d' Alembert (Male, born 1717, died 1783), Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Mélanges de Littérature, d'Histoire, et de Philosophie
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 96371
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 27
Porta's Nat: Magick folio
Borrowed: 1771/3/18 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/10/6.
Cairnoan McDowell
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85688. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1771.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Giambattista della Porta (Male, born c.1535, died 1615)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Natural magick.
Confidence level: Certain
Giambattista della Porta (Male, born c.1535, died 1615)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Natural magick by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane: in twenty books: 1 Of the causes of wonderful things. 2 Of the generation of animals. 3 Of the production of new plants. 4 Of increasing houshold-stuff. 5 Of changing metals. 6 Of counterfeiting gold. 7 Of the wonders of the load-stone. 8 Of strange cures. 9 Of beautifying women. 10 Of distillation. 11 Of perfuming. 12 Of artificial fires. 13 Of tempering steel. 14 Of cookery. 15 Of fishing, fowling, hunting, &c. 16 Of invisible writing. 17 Of strange glasses. 18 Of statick experiments. 19 Of pneumatick experiments. 20 Of the chaos. Wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1658. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: 1
ESTC: R33476
Giambattista della Porta (Male, born c.1535, died 1615)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Natural Magick by John Baptista Porta
Borrowed: 1771/3/18 (Monday).
Borrower: Cairnoan McDowell
Author: Giambattista della Porta (Male, born c.1535, died 1615), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 96362
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 27
Macbride's Essays
Borrowed: 1771/3/18 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/5/0.
Charles Bruce
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental essays on the following subjects : I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures. II. On the nature and properties of fixed air. III. On the respective powers, and manner of acting, of the different kinds of antiseptics. IV. On the scurvy; with a proposal for trying new methods to prevent or cure the same, at sea. V. On the dissolvent power of quick-lime [Macbride]
Confidence level: Certain
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental essays on the following subjects: I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures. II. On the Nature and Properties of Fixed Air. III. On the respective Powers, and Manner of Acting, of the different Kinds of Antiseptics. IV. On the Scurvy; with a Proposal for trying new Methods to prevent or cure the same, at Sea. V. On the Dissolvent Power of Quick-Lime.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1764. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 77
ESTC: N8983
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental Essays [David Macbride]
Borrowed: 1771/3/18 (Monday).
Borrower: Charles Bruce
Author: David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 96401
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 28
Priestly on Electricity
Borrowed: 1771/3/18 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/8/0.
Robert Dobson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
William Stewart
Gender: Male. Borrower type: Other.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
History and present state of electricity, with original experiments [Priestley]
Confidence level: Certain
Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
The history and present state of electricity, with original experiments.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1767. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 55
ESTC: T36344
Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments
Borrowed: 1771/3/18 (Monday).
Borrowers: Robert Dobson , William Stewart
Author: Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804), Genre: Natural Philosophy
History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments
Record ID 96410
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 29
Nature Displayed V:s 1-2.
Borrowed: 1771/3/18 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
Matthew Brown
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/86701. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1775. Other: Apprentice of Royal College of Surgeons, 1774.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Nature displayed. (original title)
Spectacle de la nature : or, Nature display'd. (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
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: 1771/3/18 (Monday).
Borrower: Matthew Brown
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, Volume 2
Record ID 96446
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 30
Martin's Essays
Borrowed: 1771/3/22 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Cairnoan McDowell
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85688. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1771.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical essays, etc. [Martin]
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical essays, Containing, I. A practical description of the several sorts of single, solar, and compound microscops; with their apparatus, and latest improvments. II. The nature of vision in insects demonstrated by microscopic observations. III. A catalogue of all principal microscopic objects. IV. The use of the reflecting telescope as an universal perspective for viewing every sort of object in the greatest perfection. V. The manner of computing the magnifying power in single and double microscopes. VI. A new method of applying a micrometer to take the dimension: of small objects. VII. An illustration of the whole in a great variety of figures on a large copper-plate.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: c.1761. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 20
ESTC: T10172
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical Essays
Borrowed: 1771/3/22 (Friday).
Borrower: Cairnoan McDowell
Author: Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 96464
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 31
Macquer's Chemistry
Borrowed: 1771/3/22 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/12/0.
Joseph Turner
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de chymie : contenant la theorie & la pratique de cette science [Macquer]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science, son application à la physíque, à l'histoire naturelle, à la médecine & à l'économie animale; avec l'explication détaillée de la vertu & de la manière d'agir les médicamens chymiques.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1766. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 197 times in 105 borrowing records
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science
Borrowed: 1771/3/22 (Friday).
Borrower: Joseph Turner
Author: Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784), Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 96524
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 32
Martin's System 3 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/3/22 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
William Robertson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): son of Principal Robertson.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Martin's System (original title)
Philosophia Britannica, or, A new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy and geography [Martin] (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophia Britannica: or, a new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy, and geography, in a course of twelve lectures, with notes.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1771. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 154 times in 64 borrowing records
ESTC: T25345
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophia Britannica
Borrowed: 1771/3/22 (Friday).
Borrower: William Robertson
Author: Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
Record ID 96518
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 32
Nature Displayed Vs 5-6-7.
Borrowed: 1771/3/22 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/1/0.
William Finlay
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Nature displayed. (original title)
Spectacle de la nature : or, Nature display'd. (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7
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: 1771/3/22 (Friday).
Borrower: William Finlay
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 5, Volume 6, Volume 7
Record ID 96503
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 32
Clarke's Demonstration
Borrowed: 1771/3/22 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.
John Henderson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
John Clarke (Male, born 1682, died 1757)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A demonstration of some of the principal sections of Sir Isaac Newton's Principles of natural philosophy [Clarke]
Confidence level: Certain
John Clarke (Male, born 1682, died 1757)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A demonstration of some of the principal sections of Sir Isaac Newton’s principles of natural philosophy. In which His peculiar Method of treating that useful Subject, is explained, and applied to some of the chief Phaenomena of the System of the World.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1730. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 12
ESTC: T144750
John Clarke (Male, born 1682, died 1757)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Demonstration of some of the Principal Sections of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles of Natural Philosophy
Borrowed: 1771/3/22 (Friday).
Borrower: John Henderson
Author: John Clarke (Male, born 1682, died 1757), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 96839
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 36
Nature Displayed V:s 1-2
Borrowed: 1771/3/26 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
Samuel Moffat
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Nature displayed. (original title)
Spectacle de la nature : or, Nature display'd. (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
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: 1771/3/26 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Samuel Moffat
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, Volume 2
Record ID 96848
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 36
Nature Displayed V:s 3-4
Borrowed: 1771/3/29 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
Abraham Nivison
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Nature displayed. (original title)
Spectacle de la nature : or, Nature display'd. (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4
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: 1771/3/29 (Friday).
Borrower: Abraham Nivison
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 3, Volume 4
Record ID 96890
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 37
Wainewright on the Non-Naturals
Borrowed: 1771/3/30 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/1/6.
John Ramsay
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Jeremiah Wainewright (Male, born 1673)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A mechanical account of the non-naturals [Wainewright].
Confidence level: Certain
Jeremiah Wainewright (Male, born 1673)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A mechanical account of the non-naturals: being a brief explication of the changes made in humane bodies, by air, diet, &c. Together With an Enquiry into the Nature and Use of Baths upon the same Principles. To which is prefix’d, The Doctrin of Animal Secretion in several Propositions.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1707. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 3
ESTC: T58315
Jeremiah Wainewright (Male, born 1673)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Mechanical Account of the Non-Naturals
Borrowed: 1771/3/30 (Saturday).
Borrower: John Ramsay
Author: Jeremiah Wainewright (Male, born 1673), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 96938
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 38
Franklin on Electricity
Borrowed: 1771/3/30 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/10/6.
William Paterson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America.
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S. To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1769. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 32
ESTC: T101040
Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America
Borrowed: 1771/3/30 (Saturday).
Borrower: William Paterson
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America
Record ID 96935
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 38
Derham's Physio Theology
Borrowed: 1771/3/30 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/0/0.
G. Hall
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
William Derham (Male, born 1657, died 1735)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Physico-theology: or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from his works of creation.
Confidence level: Certain
William Derham (Male, born 1657, died 1735)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Physico-Theology: or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from his works of creation. Being the substance of XVI sermons Preached in St. Mary le Bow-Church, London, at the Honble Mr. Boyle’s Lectures, in the Years 1711 and 1712.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1714. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 28
ESTC: T135377
William Derham (Male, born 1657, died 1735)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Physico-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation
Borrowed: 1771/3/30 (Saturday).
Borrower: G. Hall
Author: William Derham (Male, born 1657, died 1735), Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Physico-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation
Record ID 97034
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 40
Shaw on Arts
Borrowed: 1771/4/1 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/5/0.
William Wemyss
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91973. Dissertation: De Ophthalmia. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1768-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Origin: British.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Peter Shaw (Male, born 1694, died 1763)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Essays for the improvement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, by means of chemistry.
Confidence level: Certain
Peter Shaw (Male, born 1694, died 1763)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Essays for the improvement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, By Means of chemistry: containing, I. An essay for the farther advancing and applying Chemistry, in England, to the improvement of numerous Arts and Trades. II. An essay to improve the British Distillery, in the hands of the Maltstiller, Rectifier, Compounder, and Apothecary; by directing the carrying on their several Works with greater Accuracy. III. An essay to introduce an Art of concentrating Wines, Beers, and other fermented Liquors, or reducing their Bulk to Advantage, for Exportation and long Voyages.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1761. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 1
ESTC: T63056
Peter Shaw (Male, born 1694, died 1763)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Essays for the Improvement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, by Means of Chemistry
Borrowed: 1771/4/1 (Monday).
Borrower: William Wemyss
Author: Peter Shaw (Male, born 1694, died 1763), Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Essays for the Improvement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, by Means of Chemistry
Record ID 96998
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 40
Ferguson's Lectures
Borrowed: 1771/4/1 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/15/6.
James Smith
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics [Ferguson]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections E.B. .5304 Fer..
Confidence level: Certain
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1764. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 51
ESTC: T53437
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics
Borrowed: 1771/4/1 (Monday).
Borrower: James Smith
Author: James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics
Record ID 97064
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 41
Les Oeuvres de Maupertius tome 2:d
Borrowed: 1771/4/2 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/12/0.
Thomas Sanden
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91686. Dissertation: De Atmosphaerae natura.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1769-1772; MD (Edin), 1774. Origin: British.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (Male, born 1698, died 1759)
Genre: Mathematics, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Œuvres de Maupertuis.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (Male, born 1698, died 1759)
Genre: Mathematics, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Œuvres de Maupertuis. Nouvelle édition corrigée & augmentée.
Language: French . Published: Lyon. Date of publication: 1768. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 4 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 19 times in 7 borrowing records
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (Male, born 1698, died 1759)
Genre: Mathematics, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Oeuvres de Maupertuis
Borrowed: 1771/4/2 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Thomas Sanden
Author: Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (Male, born 1698, died 1759), Genre: Mathematics, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 97193
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 43
Chymie de Pott tomes 3-4
Borrowed: 1771/4/6 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 5/0/0. Funds deposited: Linen Note.
Charles Newman
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92030. Dissertation: De Dyspepsia.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dissertatione chymiques ... [Pott].
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4
Confidence level: Certain
Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dissertations chymiques ... Recueillies et traduites, tant du Latin que de l'Allemand, par M. Demachy.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1759. Format: 12mo.
Translators: Demachy, Jacques François.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 11 times in 4 borrowing records
Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dissertations Chymiques [Johann Heinrich Pott]
Borrowed: 1771/4/6 (Saturday).
Borrower: Charles Newman
Author: Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dissertations Chymiques [Johann Heinrich Pott]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4
Record ID 97196
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 43
Also Cronstedt's Mineralogy
Borrowed: 1771/4/6 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Charles Newman
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92030. Dissertation: De Dyspepsia.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (Male, born 1722, died 1765)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Cronstedt's Mineralogy (original title)
Essay towards a system of mineralogy (standardised title)
Confidence level: Certain
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (Male, born 1722, died 1765)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
An essay towards a system of mineralogy.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1770.
Translators: Engeström, Gustav von, 1738-1813
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T134557
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (Male, born 1722, died 1765)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Essay towards a System of Mineralogy
Borrowed: 1771/4/6 (Saturday).
Borrower: Charles Newman
Author: Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (Male, born 1722, died 1765), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 97190
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 43
Boerhaave's Chemistry Vol. 2d
Borrowed: 1771/4/6 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
Thomas Dawson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New method of chemistry; including the history, theory, and practice of the art: translated from the original Latin of Dr. Boerhaave's Elementa chemiæ
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A new method of chemistry; including the history, theory, and practice of the art.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1753. Format: 4to.
Editors: Shaw, Peter
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 69 times in 45 borrowing records
ESTC: N10267
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New Method of Chemistry
Borrowed: 1771/4/6 (Saturday).
Borrower: Thomas Dawson
Author: Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 97202
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 43
& Macbride's Essays
Borrowed: 1771/4/6 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Charles Newman
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92030. Dissertation: De Dyspepsia.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental essays on the following subjects : I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures. II. On the nature and properties of fixed air. III. On the respective powers, and manner of acting, of the different kinds of antiseptics. IV. On the scurvy; with a proposal for trying new methods to prevent or cure the same, at sea. V. On the dissolvent power of quick-lime [Macbride]
Confidence level: Certain
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental essays on the following subjects: I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures. II. On the Nature and Properties of Fixed Air. III. On the respective Powers, and Manner of Acting, of the different Kinds of Antiseptics. IV. On the Scurvy; with a Proposal for trying new Methods to prevent or cure the same, at Sea. V. On the Dissolvent Power of Quick-Lime.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1764. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 77
ESTC: N8983
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental Essays [David Macbride]
Borrowed: 1771/4/6 (Saturday).
Borrower: Charles Newman
Author: David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 97208
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 44
Ferguson's Lectures
Borrowed: 1771/4/6 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
William Robertson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): son of Principal Robertson.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics [Ferguson]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections E.B. .5304 Fer..
Confidence level: Certain
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1764. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 51
ESTC: T53437
James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics
Borrowed: 1771/4/6 (Saturday).
Borrower: William Robertson
Author: James Ferguson (Male, born 1710, died 1776), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics
Record ID 97316
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 45
Whytt's Physiol: Essays
Borrowed: 1771/4/8 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/3/0.
Robert Gordon
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Robert Whytt (Male, born 1714, died 1766)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Physiological essays [Whytt]
Confidence level: Certain
Robert Whytt (Male, born 1714, died 1766)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Physiological essays containing, I. An inquiry into the causes which promote the circulation of the fluids in the very small vessels of animals. II. Observations on the sensibility and irritability of the parts of men and other Animals; occasioned by M. de Haller’s late treatise on these subjects.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1766. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 23
ESTC: N12311
Robert Whytt (Male, born 1714, died 1766)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Physiological Essays [Robert Whytt]
Borrowed: 1771/4/8 (Monday).
Borrower: Robert Gordon
Author: Robert Whytt (Male, born 1714, died 1766), Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 97394
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 46
Martin's System 3 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/4/9 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
John Asher
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Martin's System (original title)
Philosophia Britannica, or, A new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy and geography [Martin] (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophia Britannica: or, a new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy, and geography, in a course of twelve lectures, with notes.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1771. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 154 times in 64 borrowing records
ESTC: T25345
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophia Britannica
Borrowed: 1771/4/9 (Tuesday).
Borrower: John Asher
Author: Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
Record ID 97460
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 47
Franklin on Electricity
Borrowed: 1771/4/12 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/0/0.
George Booth
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America.
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S. To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1769. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 32
ESTC: T101040
Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America
Borrowed: 1771/4/12 (Friday).
Borrower: George Booth
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America
Record ID 97664
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 51
Derham's Phys Theology
Borrowed: 1771/4/16 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/5/0.
Walter Grieve
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
William Derham (Male, born 1657, died 1735)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Physico-theology: or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from his works of creation.
Confidence level: Certain
William Derham (Male, born 1657, died 1735)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Physico-Theology: or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from his works of creation. Being the substance of XVI sermons Preached in St. Mary le Bow-Church, London, at the Honble Mr. Boyle’s Lectures, in the Years 1711 and 1712.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1714. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 28
ESTC: T135377
William Derham (Male, born 1657, died 1735)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Physico-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation
Borrowed: 1771/4/16 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Walter Grieve
Author: William Derham (Male, born 1657, died 1735), Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Physico-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation
Record ID 97832
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 54
Macbride's Essays
Borrowed: 1771/4/23 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.
Wilkinson Manuell
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/77992. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1773. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1772.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental essays on the following subjects : I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures. II. On the nature and properties of fixed air. III. On the respective powers, and manner of acting, of the different kinds of antiseptics. IV. On the scurvy; with a proposal for trying new methods to prevent or cure the same, at sea. V. On the dissolvent power of quick-lime [Macbride]
Confidence level: Certain
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental essays on the following subjects: I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures. II. On the Nature and Properties of Fixed Air. III. On the respective Powers, and Manner of Acting, of the different Kinds of Antiseptics. IV. On the Scurvy; with a Proposal for trying new Methods to prevent or cure the same, at Sea. V. On the Dissolvent Power of Quick-Lime.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1764. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 77
ESTC: N8983
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental Essays [David Macbride]
Borrowed: 1771/4/23 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Wilkinson Manuell
Author: David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 97829
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 54
Cronstedt's Mineralogy
Borrowed: 1771/4/23 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Charles Newman
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92030. Dissertation: De Dyspepsia.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (Male, born 1722, died 1765)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Cronstedt's Mineralogy (original title)
Essay towards a system of mineralogy (standardised title)
Confidence level: Certain
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (Male, born 1722, died 1765)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
An essay towards a system of mineralogy.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1770.
Translators: Engeström, Gustav von, 1738-1813
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T134557
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (Male, born 1722, died 1765)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Essay towards a System of Mineralogy
Borrowed: 1771/4/23 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Charles Newman
Author: Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (Male, born 1722, died 1765), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 97826
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 54
Linnæi Systema 2 Voll.
Borrowed: 1771/4/23 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 5/0/0. Funds deposited: Linen Note.
Charles Newman
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92030. Dissertation: De Dyspepsia.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnaei ... Systema naturae : per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnaei...Systema naturae per regna tria naturae :secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Language: Latin . Published: Stockholm. Date of publication: 1758-1759. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 23 times in 18 borrowing records
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Systema Naturae
Borrowed: 1771/4/23 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Charles Newman
Author: Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 97841
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 55
Newtoni Principia Vol. 1st
Borrowed: 1771/4/23 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea. Funds deposited: Dumfries Note 29.
Robert Kirkwood
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Sir Isaac Newton (Male, born 1642-12-25, died 1727-3-20)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica.
Confidence level: Very likely
Sir Isaac Newton (Male, born 1642-12-25, died 1727-3-20)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Auctore Isaaco Newtono, Equite Aurato.
Language: Latin . Published: Cambridge. Date of publication: 1713. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 65 times in 63 borrowing records
ESTC: T93210
Sir Isaac Newton (Male, born 1642-12-25, died 1727-3-20)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Borrowed: 1771/4/23 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Robert Kirkwood
Author: Sir Isaac Newton (Male, born 1642-12-25, died 1727-3-20), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 98030
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 57
Franklin on Electricity
Borrowed: 1771/4/27 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/10/6.
Thomas Dalziel
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America.
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S. To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1769. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 32
ESTC: T101040
Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America
Borrowed: 1771/4/27 (Saturday).
Borrower: Thomas Dalziel
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Male, born 1706, died 1790), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America
Record ID 98126
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 58
Linnæi Systema Vol. 2.d
Borrowed: 1771/5/3 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 5/0/0.
Charles Newman
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92030. Dissertation: De Dyspepsia.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnaei ... Systema naturae : per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnaei...Systema naturae per regna tria naturae :secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Language: Latin . Published: Stockholm. Date of publication: 1758-1759. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 23 times in 18 borrowing records
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Systema Naturae
Borrowed: 1771/5/3 (Friday).
Borrower: Charles Newman
Author: Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 98261
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 59
Helmont Ortu-Medicinæ
Borrowed: 1771/5/7 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
John Badeley
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91555. Dissertation: De tophis et calculis in viis urinariis.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1768-1770; MD (Edin), 1771. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1768. Origin: British.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Jean Baptiste van Helmont (Male, born 1577, died 1644)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Ortus medicinæ. Id est, Initia physicæ inaudita [Helmont].
Confidence level: Certain
Jean Baptiste van Helmont (Male, born 1577, died 1644)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Ortus Medicinæ id est Initia Physicæ Inaudita.
Language: Latin . Published: Amsterdam. Date of publication: 1652. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 4
Jean Baptiste van Helmont (Male, born 1577, died 1644)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Ortus Medicinae id est Initia Physicae Inaudita
Borrowed: 1771/5/7 (Tuesday).
Borrower: John Badeley
Author: Jean Baptiste van Helmont (Male, born 1577, died 1644), Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 98207
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 59
Newton's Optice
Borrowed: 1771/5/4 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/0/0. Funds deposited: Dumfries Note No. 18.
John Maxwell
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Sir Isaac Newton (Male, born 1642-12-25, died 1727-3-20)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optice : sive, de reflexionibus, refractionibus, inflexionibus & coloribus lucis.
Confidence level: Certain
Sir Isaac Newton (Male, born 1642-12-25, died 1727-3-20)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optice: sive De Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus et Coloribus Lucis, libri tres. Authore Isaaco Newton, Equite Aurato. Latine reddidit Samuel Clarke, A.M. Reverendo admodum Patri ac Dno Joanni Moore Episcopo Norvicensi a Sacris Domesticis. Accedunt Tractatus duo ejusdem Authoris de Speciebus et Magnitudine Figurarum Curvilinearum, Latine scripti.
Language: Latin . Published: London. Date of publication: 1706. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 17
ESTC: T149601
Sir Isaac Newton (Male, born 1642-12-25, died 1727-3-20)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
Borrowed: 1771/5/4 (Saturday).
Borrower: John Maxwell
Author: Sir Isaac Newton (Male, born 1642-12-25, died 1727-3-20), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
Record ID 98300
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 60
Boerhaave's Chemistry by Shaw 2 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/5/7 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2/18/0.
John Russell Junior
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New method of chemistry; including the history, theory, and practice of the art: translated from the original Latin of Dr. Boerhaave's Elementa chemiæ
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A new method of chemistry; including the history, theory, and practice of the art.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1753. Format: 4to.
Editors: Shaw, Peter
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 69 times in 45 borrowing records
ESTC: N10267
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New Method of Chemistry
Borrowed: 1771/5/7 (Tuesday).
Borrower: John Russell Junior
Author: Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98372
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 61
Macquer's Chemistry 2 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/5/11 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/0/0. Funds deposited: Dumfries Note.
Samuel Thomson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de chymie : contenant la theorie & la pratique de cette science [Macquer]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science, son application à la physíque, à l'histoire naturelle, à la médecine & à l'économie animale; avec l'explication détaillée de la vertu & de la manière d'agir les médicamens chymiques.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1766. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 197 times in 105 borrowing records
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science
Borrowed: 1771/5/11 (Saturday).
Borrower: Samuel Thomson
Author: Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784), Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98387
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 61
Martin's Essays
Borrowed: 1771/5/11 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.
John Govan
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical essays, etc. [Martin]
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical essays, Containing, I. A practical description of the several sorts of single, solar, and compound microscops; with their apparatus, and latest improvments. II. The nature of vision in insects demonstrated by microscopic observations. III. A catalogue of all principal microscopic objects. IV. The use of the reflecting telescope as an universal perspective for viewing every sort of object in the greatest perfection. V. The manner of computing the magnifying power in single and double microscopes. VI. A new method of applying a micrometer to take the dimension: of small objects. VII. An illustration of the whole in a great variety of figures on a large copper-plate.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: c.1761. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 20
ESTC: T10172
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical Essays
Borrowed: 1771/5/11 (Saturday).
Borrower: John Govan
Author: Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 98429
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 62
& Hales Statisticks 2. V:s
Borrowed: 1771/5/16 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Cairnoan McDowell
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85688. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1771.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical essays, containing vegetable staticks, or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables [Hales].
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical essays: Containing vegetable staticks; or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1738-1740. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 45 times in 25 borrowing records
ESTC: T146738
Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical Essays: Containing Vegetable Statics; Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables
Borrowed: 1771/5/16 (Thursday).
Borrower: Cairnoan McDowell
Author: Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98432
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 62
Martin's Essays
Borrowed: 1771/5/16 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/0/0. Funds deposited: Auchtermuchty Note.
James Moody
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91682. Dissertation: De causis et formis Febrium.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1769-1771; MD (1772). Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical essays, etc. [Martin]
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical essays, Containing, I. A practical description of the several sorts of single, solar, and compound microscops; with their apparatus, and latest improvments. II. The nature of vision in insects demonstrated by microscopic observations. III. A catalogue of all principal microscopic objects. IV. The use of the reflecting telescope as an universal perspective for viewing every sort of object in the greatest perfection. V. The manner of computing the magnifying power in single and double microscopes. VI. A new method of applying a micrometer to take the dimension: of small objects. VII. An illustration of the whole in a great variety of figures on a large copper-plate.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: c.1761. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 20
ESTC: T10172
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical Essays
Borrowed: 1771/5/16 (Thursday).
Borrower: James Moody
Author: Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 98411
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 62
Dictionaire de Chymie 2 tomes.
Borrowed: 1771/5/14 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Charles Newman
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92030. Dissertation: De Dyspepsia.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de chymie : contenant la theorie & la pratique de cette science [Macquer]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science, son application à la physíque, à l'histoire naturelle, à la médecine & à l'économie animale; avec l'explication détaillée de la vertu & de la manière d'agir les médicamens chymiques.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1766. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 197 times in 105 borrowing records
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science
Borrowed: 1771/5/14 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Charles Newman
Author: Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784), Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98438
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 62
& Dictionaire de Chymie 2 tomes
Borrowed: 1771/5/14 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Charles Newman
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92030. Dissertation: De Dyspepsia.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de chymie : contenant la theorie & la pratique de cette science [Macquer]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science, son application à la physíque, à l'histoire naturelle, à la médecine & à l'économie animale; avec l'explication détaillée de la vertu & de la manière d'agir les médicamens chymiques.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1766. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 197 times in 105 borrowing records
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science
Borrowed: 1771/5/14 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Charles Newman
Author: Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784), Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98444
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 63
Hales Statisticks 2 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/5/17 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Cairnoan McDowell
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85688. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1771.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical essays, containing vegetable staticks, or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables [Hales].
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical essays: Containing vegetable staticks; or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1738-1740. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 45 times in 25 borrowing records
ESTC: T146738
Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical Essays: Containing Vegetable Statics; Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables
Borrowed: 1771/5/17 (Friday).
Borrower: Cairnoan McDowell
Author: Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98492
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 64
Brooke's Nat. Hist: V.s 1-2
Borrowed: 1771/5/28 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 3/0/0.
William Finlay
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Richard Brookes (Male)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A new and accurate system of natural history ... [Brookes].
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Richard Brookes (Male)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A new and accurate system of natural history; containing I. The history of quadrupedes, including Amphibious Animals, Frogs, and Lizards, with their Properties and Uses in Medicine. II. The History of Birds, with the Method of bringing up those of the singing Kind. III. The History of Fishes and Serpents, including Sea-Turtles, Crustaceous and Shell-Fishes; with their medicinal Uses. IV. The History of Insects, with their Properties and Uses in Medicine. V. The History of Waters, Earths, Stones, Fossils, and Minerals; with their Virtues, Properties, and Medicinal Uses: To which is added, the Method in which Linnaeus has treated these Subjects. VI. The history of vegetables, as well Foreign as Indigenous, including an Account of the Roots, Barks, Woods, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Resins, Gums, and concreted Juices; as also their Properties, Virtues, and Uses in Medicine; together with the Method of cultivating those planted in Gardens. By R. Brookes, M. D. Author of the General Practice of Physic. In six volumes.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1763. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 106 times in 47 borrowing records
ESTC: T131870
Richard Brookes (Male)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New and Accurate System of Natural History
Borrowed: 1771/5/28 (Tuesday).
Borrower: William Finlay
Author: Richard Brookes (Male), Genre: Natural Philosophy
New and Accurate System of Natural History
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98483
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 64
Linnæi Systema Naturæ
Borrowed: 1771/5/21 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
Robert Allen
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnaei ... Systema naturae : per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnaei...Systema naturae per regna tria naturae :secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Language: Latin . Published: Stockholm. Date of publication: 1758-1759. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 23 times in 18 borrowing records
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Systema Naturae
Borrowed: 1771/5/21 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Robert Allen
Author: Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98480
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 64
Lee's Botany
Borrowed: 1771/5/21 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.
Alexander Johnston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
James Lee (Male, born 1715, died 1795)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to botany [Lee]
Possible modern shelfmark: Main Library - Special Collections ; E.B. .58 Lin..
Confidence level: Certain
James Lee (Male, born 1715, died 1795)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
An introduction to botany.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1765. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 26
ESTC: T81053
James Lee (Male, born 1715, died 1795)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to Botany [James Lee]
Borrowed: 1771/5/21 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Alexander Johnston
Author: James Lee (Male, born 1715, died 1795), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 98510
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 65
Tournefort Institutiones Rei Herberiæ 2 Voll. 4:to
Borrowed: 1771/5/28 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2/16/0.
Gilbert Blane
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/80920. Class: Arts, Medicine. Academic dates: 1769-1773. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1770; MD (Glasgow), 1778. Origin: Scottish. Life dates: 1749-1834.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (Male, born 1656, died 1708)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Josephi Pitton Tournefort Institutiones rei herbariae.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (Male, born 1656, died 1708)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Josephi Pitton Tournefort,... Institutiones rei herbariae.
Language: Latin . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1719. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 7 times in 3 borrowing records
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (Male, born 1656, died 1708)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Institutiones Rei Herbariae [Joseph Pitton de Tournefort]
Borrowed: 1771/5/28 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Gilbert Blane
Author: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (Male, born 1656, died 1708), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Institutiones Rei Herbariae [Joseph Pitton de Tournefort]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98552
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 66
Linnæ Philosophia Botanica
Borrowed: 1771/6/7 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.
Cairnoan McDowell
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85688. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1771.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnaei ... Philosophia botanica
Confidence level: Certain
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
C. Linnæi ... Philosophia botanica, in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica cum definitionibus partium, etc.
Language: Latin . Published: Vienna. Date of publication: 1755. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 10
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophia Botanica [Carl Linnaeus]
Borrowed: 1771/6/7 (Friday).
Borrower: Cairnoan McDowell
Author: Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 98609
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 67
Martin's System 3 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/6/7 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
Robert Halyburton
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85275. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1780.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Martin's System (original title)
Philosophia Britannica, or, A new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy and geography [Martin] (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophia Britannica: or, a new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy, and geography, in a course of twelve lectures, with notes.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1771. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 154 times in 64 borrowing records
ESTC: T25345
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophia Britannica
Borrowed: 1771/6/7 (Friday).
Borrower: Robert Halyburton
Author: Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
Record ID 98660
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 68
Wainwright on the Non-Naturals
Borrowed: 1771/6/11 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/2/6.
John Govan
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Jeremiah Wainewright (Male, born 1673)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A mechanical account of the non-naturals [Wainewright].
Confidence level: Certain
Jeremiah Wainewright (Male, born 1673)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A mechanical account of the non-naturals: being a brief explication of the changes made in humane bodies, by air, diet, &c. Together With an Enquiry into the Nature and Use of Baths upon the same Principles. To which is prefix’d, The Doctrin of Animal Secretion in several Propositions.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1707. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 3
ESTC: T58315
Jeremiah Wainewright (Male, born 1673)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Mechanical Account of the Non-Naturals
Borrowed: 1771/6/11 (Tuesday).
Borrower: John Govan
Author: Jeremiah Wainewright (Male, born 1673), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 98621
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 68
Burnet's Theory 2 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/6/11 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2/0/0.
George Campbell
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student. Medicine and Health > Surgeon.
Thomas Burnet (Male, born c.1635, died 1715)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Sacred theory of the earth [Burnet]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Thomas Burnet (Male, born c.1635, died 1715)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
The sacred theory of the earth: containing an account of its original creation, and of all the general changes which it hath undergone, or is to undergo, until the consummation of all things.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1759. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 61 times in 35 borrowing records
ESTC: T130098
Thomas Burnet (Male, born c.1635, died 1715)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Sacred Theory of the Earth [Thomas Burnet]
Borrowed: 1771/6/11 (Tuesday).
Borrower: George Campbell
Author: Thomas Burnet (Male, born c.1635, died 1715), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Sacred Theory of the Earth [Thomas Burnet]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98654
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 68
Hales Staticks 2 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/6/11 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/12/0.
Thomas Melville
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85750. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1769-1771. Other: Apprentice to Royal College of Surgeons, 1769.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical essays, containing vegetable staticks, or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables [Hales].
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical essays: Containing vegetable staticks; or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1738-1740. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 45 times in 25 borrowing records
ESTC: T146738
Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical Essays: Containing Vegetable Statics; Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables
Borrowed: 1771/6/11 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Thomas Melville
Author: Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98789
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 69
Lee's Botany
Borrowed: 1771/6/11 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.
Matthew Brown
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/86701. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1775. Other: Apprentice of Royal College of Surgeons, 1774.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
James Lee (Male, born 1715, died 1795)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to botany [Lee]
Possible modern shelfmark: Main Library - Special Collections ; E.B. .58 Lin..
Confidence level: Certain
James Lee (Male, born 1715, died 1795)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
An introduction to botany.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1765. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 26
ESTC: T81053
James Lee (Male, born 1715, died 1795)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to Botany [James Lee]
Borrowed: 1771/6/11 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Matthew Brown
Author: James Lee (Male, born 1715, died 1795), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 98819
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 70
Flemyng's Physiology
Borrowed: 1771/6/11 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/5/0.
Robert Anderson
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/76955. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1767-1769.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Malcolm Flemyng (Male, died 1764)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to Physiology; being a course of lectures on the most important parts of the animal oeconomy [Flemyng]
Confidence level: Certain
Malcolm Flemyng (Male, died 1764)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
An introduction to physiology, being A Course of Lectures upon The most important Parts of the animal oeconomy.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1759. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 47
ESTC: T59540
Malcolm Flemyng (Male, died 1764)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to Physiology, being A Course of Lectures upon the most Important Parts of the Animal Oeconomy
Borrowed: 1771/6/11 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Robert Anderson
Author: Malcolm Flemyng (Male, died 1764), Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 98891
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 72
Linnæi Species plantorum 2 Voll.
Borrowed: 1771/6/25 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/0/0.
Matthew Brown
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/86701. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1775. Other: Apprentice of Royal College of Surgeons, 1774.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas.
Possible modern shelfmark: Main Library - Special Collections ; *K.22.54-55.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnæi Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas secundum systema sexuale digestas.
Language: Latin . Published: Stockholm. Date of publication: 1762-1763. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 70 times in 37 borrowing records
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Species Plantarum
Borrowed: 1771/6/25 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Matthew Brown
Author: Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98879
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 72
Linnæi Systema Vol. 2:d
Borrowed: 1771/6/20 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/0/0.
James Richmond
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnaei ... Systema naturae : per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Caroli Linnaei...Systema naturae per regna tria naturae :secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Language: Latin . Published: Stockholm. Date of publication: 1758-1759. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 23 times in 18 borrowing records
Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Systema Naturae
Borrowed: 1771/6/20 (Thursday).
Borrower: James Richmond
Author: Linnaeus (Male, born 1707, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 98957
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 74
Flemying's Physiology
Borrowed: 1771/7/11 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Robert Anderson
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/76955. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1767-1769.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Malcolm Flemyng (Male, died 1764)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to Physiology; being a course of lectures on the most important parts of the animal oeconomy [Flemyng]
Confidence level: Certain
Malcolm Flemyng (Male, died 1764)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
An introduction to physiology, being A Course of Lectures upon The most important Parts of the animal oeconomy.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1759. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 47
ESTC: T59540
Malcolm Flemyng (Male, died 1764)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to Physiology, being A Course of Lectures upon the most Important Parts of the Animal Oeconomy
Borrowed: 1771/7/11 (Thursday).
Borrower: Robert Anderson
Author: Malcolm Flemyng (Male, died 1764), Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 98966
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 75
Hales Staticks 2 V:s
Borrowed: 1771/7/11 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2/2/0.
George Pearson
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92011. Dissertation: De putredine animalibus post morteur superviente.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1771; LRCP(1784); FRS(1791) . Origin: English. Life dates: 1751-1828.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical essays, containing vegetable staticks, or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables [Hales].
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical essays: Containing vegetable staticks; or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1738-1740. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 45 times in 25 borrowing records
ESTC: T146738
Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical Essays: Containing Vegetable Statics; Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables
Borrowed: 1771/7/11 (Thursday).
Borrower: George Pearson
Author: Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 98972
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 75
Stahlij fundamenta Chimiæ 2 Voll
Borrowed: 1771/7/11 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
George Pearson
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92011. Dissertation: De putredine animalibus post morteur superviente.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1771; LRCP(1784); FRS(1791) . Origin: English. Life dates: 1751-1828.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Georg Ernst Stahl (Male, born 1660, died 1734)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Georg Ernst Stahl ... fundamenta chymiae dogmaticae & experimentalis.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Very likely
Georg Ernst Stahl (Male, born 1660, died 1734)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
G. E. Stahlii ... Fundamenta Chymiae dogmaticae et experimentalis ... Annexus est ... tractatus I. Hollandi de salibus et oleis metallorum. (Fundamenta Chymiae rationalis-Fundamenta Chymiae dogmatico-rationalis et experimentalis, etc.) .
Language: Latin . Published: Nuremberg. Date of publication: 1723-1732. Format: 4to.
Editors: Carl, Johann Samuel.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 7 times in 4 borrowing records
Georg Ernst Stahl (Male, born 1660, died 1734)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Fundamenta Chymiae Dogmaticae et Experimentalis
Borrowed: 1771/7/11 (Thursday).
Borrower: George Pearson
Author: Georg Ernst Stahl (Male, born 1660, died 1734), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Fundamenta Chymiae Dogmaticae et Experimentalis
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 99101
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 79
Buffon histoire naturelle tomes 1-2-3.
Borrowed: 1771/7/25 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
James White
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du Cabinet du roi [Buffon]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
Confidence level: Certain
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1752-1768. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 86 times in 41 borrowing records
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon
Borrowed: 1771/7/25 (Thursday).
Borrower: James White
Author: Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
Record ID 99239
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 84
Martins Philosophia Brittanica 3 Vols
Borrowed: 1771/8/20 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/15/0.
Robert Peronneau
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91782. Dissertation: De menstrurum profluviis.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1769-1774; MD (Edin), 1775. Origin: Carolina.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophia Britannica, or, A new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy and geography [Martin]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophia Britannica: or, a new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy, and geography, in a course of twelve lectures, with notes.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1771. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 154 times in 64 borrowing records
ESTC: T25345
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Philosophia Britannica
Borrowed: 1771/8/20 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Robert Peronneau
Author: Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 99284
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 85
Nature Displayed V:s 3-4-5-6-7
Borrowed: 1771/8/27 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/7/0.
Robert Halyburton
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/85275. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1780.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Nature displayed. (original title)
Spectacle de la nature : or, Nature display'd. (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7
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: 1771/8/27 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Robert Halyburton
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 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7
Record ID 99293
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 85
Bacon Novum Organon
Borrowed: 1771/8/27 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/2/6.
John Mackenzie
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Francis Bacon (Male, born 1561, died 1626)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Instauratio magna. [Sive Novum organum. Lib. I. II. Et Parasceve, ad historiam naturalem et experimentalem].
Confidence level: Certain
Francis Bacon (Male, born 1561, died 1626)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Francisci de Verulamio, summi Angliæ Cancellarij, Instauratio magna.
Language: Latin . Published: London. Date of publication: 1620. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: 3
ESTC: S120789
Francis Bacon (Male, born 1561, died 1626)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Instauratio Magna [Francis Bacon]
Borrowed: 1771/8/27 (Tuesday).
Borrower: John Mackenzie
Author: Francis Bacon (Male, born 1561, died 1626), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 99311
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 86
Mebrides Experimental Essays
Borrowed: 1771/9/5 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/5/0.
James Johnston
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91719. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1775-1779; MD (Edin), 1778. Other: Apprentice to Royal College of Surgeons, 1776.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental essays on the following subjects : I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures. II. On the nature and properties of fixed air. III. On the respective powers, and manner of acting, of the different kinds of antiseptics. IV. On the scurvy; with a proposal for trying new methods to prevent or cure the same, at sea. V. On the dissolvent power of quick-lime [Macbride]
Confidence level: Certain
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental essays on the following subjects: I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures. II. On the Nature and Properties of Fixed Air. III. On the respective Powers, and Manner of Acting, of the different Kinds of Antiseptics. IV. On the Scurvy; with a Proposal for trying new Methods to prevent or cure the same, at Sea. V. On the Dissolvent Power of Quick-Lime.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1764. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 77
ESTC: N8983
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental Essays [David Macbride]
Borrowed: 1771/9/5 (Thursday).
Borrower: James Johnston
Author: David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 99353
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 87
Rays Wisdom of God
Borrowed: 1771/9/10 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/4/0.
William M'Intosh
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
John Ray (Male, born 1627, died 1705)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Ray's Wisdom (original title)
The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation [Ray] (standardised title)
Confidence level: Certain
John Ray (Male, born 1627, died 1705)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation.
Language: English . Published: Glasgow. Date of publication: 1768. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 7
ESTC: T93657
John Ray (Male, born 1627, died 1705)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation
Borrowed: 1771/9/10 (Tuesday).
Borrower: William M'Intosh
Author: John Ray (Male, born 1627, died 1705), Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Record ID 99374
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 88
Flemyng's physiology
Borrowed: 1771/9/17 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 5/0/0.
Charles Newman
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/92030. Dissertation: De Dyspepsia.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772; MD (Edin), 1773. Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Malcolm Flemyng (Male, died 1764)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to Physiology; being a course of lectures on the most important parts of the animal oeconomy [Flemyng]
Confidence level: Certain
Malcolm Flemyng (Male, died 1764)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
An introduction to physiology, being A Course of Lectures upon The most important Parts of the animal oeconomy.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1759. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 47
ESTC: T59540
Malcolm Flemyng (Male, died 1764)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to Physiology, being A Course of Lectures upon the most Important Parts of the Animal Oeconomy
Borrowed: 1771/9/17 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Charles Newman
Author: Malcolm Flemyng (Male, died 1764), Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 99416
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 89
Boerhaaves Elements of Chymistry abrigd
Borrowed: 1771/9/24 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0. Funds deposited: N. D. [also three codes?].
Adam Ferguson
Gender: Male.
Other: Professor of Natural Philosophy; of Pneumatics and Moral Philosophy. Life dates: 1723-1816.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Education > University Student. Education > University Professor.
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New method of chemistry; including the history, theory, and practice of the art: translated from the original Latin of Dr. Boerhaave's Elementa chemiæ
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A new method of chemistry; including the history, theory, and practice of the art.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1753. Format: 4to.
Editors: Shaw, Peter
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 69 times in 45 borrowing records
ESTC: N10267
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New Method of Chemistry
Borrowed: 1771/9/24 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Adam Ferguson
Author: Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 99395
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 89
Buffons histoire Naturelle Vol. 4, 5, 6
Borrowed: 1771/9/19 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
James White
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du Cabinet du roi [Buffon]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6
Confidence level: Certain
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1752-1768. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 86 times in 41 borrowing records
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon
Borrowed: 1771/9/19 (Thursday).
Borrower: James White
Author: Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon
Volumes borrowed: Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6
Record ID 99401
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 89
Matho 2 Vols
Borrowed: 1771/9/19 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Daniel Robertson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Andrew Baxter (Male, born c.1686, died 1750)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Matho: or, the cosmotheoria puerilis: in ten dialogues.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Very likely
Andrew Baxter (Male, born c.1686, died 1750)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Matho: or, the cosmotheoria puerilis: in ten dialogues. ... The whole accommodated to the capacities, and intended for ... young students.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1765. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 4 times in 2 borrowing records
ESTC: N35088
Andrew Baxter (Male, born c.1686, died 1750)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Matho: or, the Cosmotheoria Puerilis, A Dialogue
Borrowed: 1771/9/19 (Thursday).
Borrower: Daniel Robertson
Author: Andrew Baxter (Male, born c.1686, died 1750), Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology
Matho: or, the Cosmotheoria Puerilis, A Dialogue
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 99431
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 90
Nature Displayed V:s 3-4-5-6-7
Borrowed: 1771/10/1 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
Mathieu Cadonx
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/79097. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1772. Other: Apprentice to Royal College of Surgeons, 1774.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Nature displayed. (original title)
Spectacle de la nature : or, Nature display'd. (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7
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: 1771/10/1 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Mathieu Cadonx
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 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7
Record ID 99419
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 90
Martine's Essays
Borrowed: 1771/9/26 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.
Richard Whitacker
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/76847. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1771.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical essays, etc. [Martin]
Confidence level: Certain
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical essays, Containing, I. A practical description of the several sorts of single, solar, and compound microscops; with their apparatus, and latest improvments. II. The nature of vision in insects demonstrated by microscopic observations. III. A catalogue of all principal microscopic objects. IV. The use of the reflecting telescope as an universal perspective for viewing every sort of object in the greatest perfection. V. The manner of computing the magnifying power in single and double microscopes. VI. A new method of applying a micrometer to take the dimension: of small objects. VII. An illustration of the whole in a great variety of figures on a large copper-plate.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: c.1761. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 20
ESTC: T10172
Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Optical Essays
Borrowed: 1771/9/26 (Thursday).
Borrower: Richard Whitacker
Author: Benjamin Martin (Male, born 1705, died 1782), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Record ID 99479
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 92
Also Shaw's Boerhaave's Chemistry Vol. 1:st
Borrowed: 1771/10/8 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
James Johnston
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91719. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1775-1779; MD (Edin), 1778. Other: Apprentice to Royal College of Surgeons, 1776.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New method of chemistry; including the history, theory, and practice of the art: translated from the original Latin of Dr. Boerhaave's Elementa chemiæ
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Confidence level: Certain
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A new method of chemistry; including the history, theory, and practice of the art.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1753. Format: 4to.
Editors: Shaw, Peter
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 69 times in 45 borrowing records
ESTC: N10267
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
New Method of Chemistry
Borrowed: 1771/10/8 (Tuesday).
Borrower: James Johnston
Author: Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 99485
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.9 (1771-1773, Type: Student). Page: 92
Macbrides Essays
Borrowed: 1771/10/8 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/0/0.
Matthew Brown
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/86701. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1770-1775. Other: Apprentice of Royal College of Surgeons, 1774.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental essays on the following subjects : I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures. II. On the nature and properties of fixed air. III. On the respective powers, and manner of acting, of the different kinds of antiseptics. IV. On the scurvy; with a proposal for trying new methods to prevent or cure the same, at sea. V. On the dissolvent power of quick-lime [Macbride]
Confidence level: Certain
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental essays on the following subjects: I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures. II. On the Nature and Properties of Fixed Air. III. On the respective Powers, and Manner of Acting, of the different Kinds of Antiseptics. IV. On the Scurvy; with a Proposal for trying new Methods to prevent or cure the same, at Sea. V. On the Dissolvent Power of Quick-Lime.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1764. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 77
ESTC: N8983
David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experimental Essays [David Macbride]
Borrowed: 1771/10/8 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Matthew Brown
Author: David Macbride (Male, born 1726, died 1778), Genre: Natural Philosophy