Diagrams.
Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:
'A new system of practical geometry presented to Admiral Forbes by ... James Forbes, Ensign in the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards ... 1781', containing a series of finely executed geometrical diagrams in ornamental frames.
The pages illustrating the reduction of figures consist of coloured plans and architectural elevations.
The writer succeeded as 18th Lord Forbes in 1803.
Botanical and geographical notes and diagrams of Patrick Geddes, including several magazine cuttings on botany., 1870-1899, undated.
Climbing journal of Peter Frederick Oliver of an expedition to Gahrwal in the Kunmaon Himalayas during which Oliver failed in an attempt to climb Dunagiri but later made the second known ascent of Trisul., May-July 1933.
The journal contains diagrams and line drawings showing routes taken on the expedition.
Climbing journal of Peter Frederick Oliver of the Everest expedition, with diagrams., May-June 1936.
Collection of experiments concerning sun-spots with accompanying diagrams and notes., 1884.
Commonplace book of Alexander Keith of Ravelston, (died 1751), but written in more than one hand., 1684-?1688.
`Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi` by Peter of Poitiers, Chancellor of Paris., 13th century.
Copy of James Gillespie, "The Triumph of Philosophy; or, The True System of the Universe" (London, 1893), with associated letter and diagrams, undated, of Gillespie.
Correspondence and papers of John Rennie concerning Waterloo Bridge., 1810-1818, 1934, undated.
Correspondence, papers, and diagrams of John Rennie concerning mills, chiefly for sugar, for Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Demerara (Guyana)., 1805-1821.
Correspondence, papers, and diagrams of John Rennie concerning mills, chiefly for sugar, for Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Demerara (Guyana)., 1805-1813.
Correspondence, papers, and diagrams of John Rennie concerning mills, chiefly for sugar, for Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Demerara (Guyana)., 1814-1821.
'Cosmographiae Principia, ubi Explicantur, varia Mundi Systemata, & verum stabilitur'.
Dairy of Thomas Stewart Traill., August-September 1844.
Dairy of Thomas Stewart Traill., September-October 1844.
Diagrams and notes of John Francis Campbell relating to experiments in thermography made, according to the note on the front board, between May 1880 and May 1881 with a new lens he had acquired., 1880-1881.
Diary kept by Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming during her journey to and stay in Fiji.
The diary commences in February 1875 and breaks off in July 1876, fourteen months before the writer left Fiji. The material in the diary is basically similar to that of Miss Gordon-Cumming's book, ‘At home in Fiji’ (Edinburgh, 1881), as far as volume ii, page 25, although the book is composed of a series of letters to the writer's friends in England. Occasional thumb-nail sketches or diagrams appear in the diary.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of a tour in England., August 1838.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of a tour in England, with particular reference to visits to Oxford and London., August 1823.
'Divine aenigms and pious problems', poems by John Donne, son of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul's.
The poems are dedicated to Francis, Baron Newport, afterwards Earl of Bradford. There are three illustrative diagrams, the ‘ensignes’ of the twelve Patriarchs, and ‘an index of most remarkable matters’.
Documents relating to management training course undertaken by James Johnston., 1962.
‘Exercitationes Physicae’.
The work consists of an introduction and four `exercitationes` divided into chapters. Mention is made of authors such as Gerard Vossius, Descartes and Gassendi. There are a few diagrams dealing with astronomy. The work is followed (folio 131) by theological notes in English and Latin, including part of an attack on the philosophy of Descartes.
Folded almanac, 15th century, written in England and containing medical and astrological material., Later 15th century.
Folder containing two examples of Circular Time Scales which are two long graph-like charts joined together and folded into the binding., 1877-1885.
The time scales are for the years 1880-1881, with illustrated meteorological observations made while he was travelling abroad, particularly in Egypt.
Other items are loosely inserted at the back of the folder, and include photographs of sun-spots, meteorological charts and diagrams, 1877-1885.