John Ewing papers, 1745-1789.

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John Ewing papers, 1745-1789.

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Collection includes: Notebook on algebra in Ewing's hand and possibly that of Richard Peters; "A compendium of Natural Philosophy" written by Ewing; notes from Ewing's lectures in the hands of Samuel Miller and Christopher Heydrick; and twenty-two sermons in manuscript form with an additional thirteen leaves of incomplete sermons (a list of the sermons accompanies the item).

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7899891

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850

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New York Presbyterian clergyman, author, historian, and professor. From the description of Papers, 1790-1814. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58760960 Samuel Miller was a Presbyterian clergyman, author and professor of church history at Princeton Theological Seminary. From the description of Compend of Biblical History : manuscript, 1817 / by Samuel Miller, D.D. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155904581 ...

Peters, Richard Walter

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Heydrick, Christopher, 1770-1856,

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Ewing, John, 1732-1802

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Presbyterian minister and professor of natural philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. A vice-president of the American Philosophical Society, he contributed articles on astronomy to their Transactions. Ewing served on commissions with D. Rittenhouse to settle boundary disputes. The 1784 notebook contains astronomical observations made during an expedition in the summer of 1784 to settle such a dispute. Ewing's lectures on natural philosophy were published, posthumously, as "A Plain Elemen...