Papers of John Robison (1739-1805) [ca.1780]-1797

University of Glasgow

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John J. Adam was a Scottish immigrant, member of Michigan legislature, holder of various state offices, regent and treasurer of the University of Michigan. From the description of [Diploma, granting to Ioannis Iohnstone Adam a degree in liberal arts] 1826 April 7. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34368441 John Baird Hunter was born in 1837 in Paisley, the son of an apothecary named William Hunter. Together with his older brother, William Munn Hunter...

Black, Joseph, 1728-1799

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Professor of chemistry and medicine, Edinburgh, Scotland. From the description of Joseph Black papers, circa 1785. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131907 British chemist and physicist. From the description of Chemistry, undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 32288659 Joseph Black, Scottish chemist and physician. Best known for his experiments and discoveries with regard to heat and the properties of gasses, Black was a partner and longtime frie...

Watt, James, 1736-1819

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Scottish inventor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Birmingham, to Robert Mylne, 1785 Dec. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270660869 From the description of Autograph letter signed Boulton & Watt : Birmingham, to Messrs. Fermin De Tastet & Co., 1791 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270660856 ...

Royal society of Edinburgh

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Robison, John, 1739-1805

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Scientific writer and mathematical philosopher. Professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, 1773-1805, and first general secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. From the description of Letter : Edinburgh, to Hon[ora]ble Sir, 1790 Feb. 13. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 39880381 ...

Edinburgh university

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Robert Burns Young was born in 1874. He was a graduate of Edinburgh University. He took the degree of M.A. and he also took the degree of M.D. His publications include The life and work of George William Stow, South African geologist and ethnologist (1908) and The Banket: a study of the auriferous conglomerates of the Witwatersrand and the associated rocks (1917). From the guide to the The Young Medals, 1899-1935, (Edinburgh University Library) ...

Harrison, John, 1693-1776

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Royal Society (Great Britain)

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The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge began in 1645 when a group of eminent British thinkers started to meet regularly in London to discuss the new, experimental philosophies of science. Though the English Civil War and the Cromwellian Protectorate interrupted its meetings, the Society was formally constituted in 1660. Two years later King Charles II granted the Society its first charter. A second royal charter was granted in 1663 when the Society was given its official nam...