420 matching record(s)
MS Bode, J. E.
Vorstellung der Gestirne auf XXXIV Kupfertafeln nach der Pariser Ausgabe des Flamsteadschen Himmelsatlas
Durchgehends verbesser und mit den Beobachtungen neuerer Astronomen Vermehrt nebst einer Anweisung zum Gebrauch und einem Vollstandigen Sternenver-zeichnisse. Berlin und Stralsund, bey Gottlieb August Lange 1782. Irregular. NB: plans of star formations inserted between the pages of the text, in Chinese, whose names are inserted on the plates of Star Maps. From the University Observatory
[Unknown]
1782
MS Bond, John J.
A Perpetual Calendar
London: Bell and Daldy, 186, Fleet Street …, 1866. 18 page, cloth bound, signed by Jas. [or Jos.] Wm. Waterhouse. Together with, loosely enclosed, letter from the author to Waterhouse, 1866
[Unknown]
1866
MS Bourne, Geoffrey (ed.)
Cytology and Cell Physiology
Proof Copy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1942.
[1979-231]
1942
MS Hamilton, Gertrude
'Old Scientific Instruments'
Paris, 1935. Photocopy made from a microfilm (lent by R. S. Webster Esq.) of the typescript of an unpublished book.
[1989-13]
1935
MS Herschel, Sir John F. W.
The Forty-Foot Telescope at Slough
Bound copy of the 1890 reproduction of Hershel's 1839 photograph of his father's telescope mounting, with accompanying text (single page); together with a MS letter from W. J. Herschel to Prof. H. H. Turner. University Observatory Collection
[1982-104]
1890
MS Jones, R. Norman (Richard Norman), 1913-
Analytical Applications of Vibrational Spectroscopy: A Historical Review
Unpublished typescript. 51, [9] leaves. Presented by Professor John Rowlinson.
[2005-183]
[n.d.]
MS Kuhn, Hans G.
[Various titles]
Folder of offprints of articles written and co-written by Hans G. Kuhn (his own set of copies), 1926-83. Presented by Mrs Kuhn, widow of Hans G. Kuhn, in 1998.
[Pending]
1926-83
MS Millburn, John R.; King, Henry C.
'James Ferguson - Wheelwright of the Heavens'
Photocopy of the revised draft of the manuscript, 1976. [Remained unpublished until 1988 - see separate entry].
[Unknown]
1976
MS Van Slyke [?]
'The Van Slyke Manometric Apparatus for Determination of Blood Gases'
Cyclostyled sheet, n.p., n.d.
[1979-201]
[n.d.]
MS Wood, E. R.
'Charles Leadbetter, Teacher of the Mathematicks'
Photocopy of typescript of lecture given to The Bibliographical Society on [March 21], 1967; copied from the author's carbon copy in the Wallis Collection, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Presented by Mrs R. V. Wallis per Dr D. J. Bryden
[1996-116]
1967
MS 297Wight, Martin
"What Makes a Good Historian?"
extract from The Listener, February 17, 1955, pp. 283-284. Based on part of Sir Keith Hancock's published reminiscences, Country and Calling. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1955
MS altWard, John
The History of Sundials in the United States, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the British Isles
March 25th - July 14th 1984. (Photocopy of manuscript research and travel journal, with illustrations).
[1984-120]
1984
MS Blundell 1Broadley, A. M.
"The Knowledge of the Makers of Scientific Instruments in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Their Trade-Cards and other Rariora"
extract from Knowledge, August 1912, pp. 306-312. (First page mutilated).
[1978-847]
1912
MS Blundell 13 (2 & 3)Dollond, Alfred W.
"Toning Platinum Prints"
extract from The British Journal of Photography, March 1, 1895, pp. 134-135. 2 copies.
[1978-{??}]
1895
MS Blundell 13 (4)Anonymous
"Auro.platinotype Prints"
extract from The British Journal of Photography, n.d. [1895], p. 149. (Re. A. W. Dollond's process for gold-toning platinum prints).
[1978-{??}]
1895?
MS Blundell 16European Magazine
European Magazine
Vol. LXXVIII, 1820. Unbound and incomplete issue, consisting of pp. 113-128 and 153-192 + 6 pages (R. Ackermann's catalogue of publications). [Pages containing obituary and portrait of Peter Dollond have been removed].
[1978-{??}]
1820
MS Blundell 17Gentleman's Magazine
The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review
Vol. XXXVIII [part], July 1852. Disbound and incomplete issue, consisting of: 16 pages (Charles Muskett's catalogue of second-hand books, yellow paper) + GM advertisements pp. 93-104 + frontispiece + pp. 1-96 and 105-112 (the magazine proper) + index to GM vol. XXXVII (January-July 1852) pp. 641-672 + title page and preface for that volume (4 pages) + 16 pages (Rivington's catalogue of publications) + 16 pages (George Willis's catalogue of second-hand books). [Pages containing obituary of George Dollond have been removed].
[1978-{??}]
1852
MS Blundell 21Herschel, J. F. W.
"Light"
extract from [Edward Smedley (ed.), Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, vol. 4 (London, 1845)], pp. 341-586 and 14 plates. Dated at end Slough, December 12, 1827. Bound. Inscribed "Mr. Dollond / With the Authors / Respects."; George Dollond snr's. copy
[1998-15/2]
1827?
MS Blundell 23Kelly, John
"The Life of John Dollond, F.R.S., Inventor of the Achromatic Telescope"
offprint from the Philosophical Magazine, February 1804, 8 pages and frontispiece portrait (by K. Mackenzie, dated 1804). Blue paper covers.
[1998-16/part]
1804
MS Blundell 23[Dollond & Co.]
The House of Dollond
n.d. [1917]. 14 pages and 5 plates. [Published by Dollond & Co.].
[1998-16/part]
1917?
MS Blundell 35 (1)Tallent, Alexander A. K.; Dollond, Alfred W.
"The Science of Tone-Rendering in Opaque Ink"
in The [Process] Photogram, vol. II no. 22, October 1895, pp. 139-141 of separately-paginated central section. [Continuation in next issue not present]. ('Process' forms part of journal title on cover and in separately-paginated section only).
[1998-16/part]
1895
MS Blundell 35 (2)Dollond, A. W.
"Systematic Outdoor Photography"
extracts from The Photographic News, April 14, April 21, and May 5, 1899, pp. 233-4, 245-6, and 278 [next page missing]. (Article in 3 parts).
[1998-16/part]
1899
MS Blundell 35 (3)Dollond, A. W.
"Focussing"
in Focus: For all Photographers, vol. III no. 58, July 27, 1904, pp. 108-9.
[1998-16/part]
1904
MS Blundell 35 (4)Dollond, A. W.
"The Use of Very Small Stops"
in Focus: For all Photographers, vol. III no. 71, October 26, 1904, pp. 371-2.
[1998-16/part]
1904
MS Blundell 35 (5)Dollond, A. W.
"Systematic Work in the Field"
in Focus: For all Photographers, vol. IV no. 90, March 8, 1905, pp. 230-1.
[1998-16/part]
1905
MS Blundell 35 (6)Dollond, A. W.
"Indoor Work ... Part I. - Subjects Available for Indoor Photography"
in Focus: For all Photographers, vol. VI no. 134, January 10, 1906, pp. 64-5.
[1998-16/part]
1906
MS Blundell 35 (7)Dollond, A. W.
"Indoor Work ... Part II. - Apparatus and Method of Procedure"
in Focus: For all Photographers, vol. VI no. 135, January 17, 1906, pp. 84-5.
[1998-16/part]
1906
MS Blundell 5 & 23[Dollond]
The Use of the Three Combined Prisms is, to shew the Principles of the Achromatic Object-Glass
Thiselton, Printer, Goodge Street, London. n.d. [early 19th century]. Single-sheet handbill or instruction sheet. 2 copies.
[1978-851] & [1998-16/part]
18--?
MS Buxton 18Buxton, L. H. Dudley
"Charles Babbage and his Difference Engines"
offprint from Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vol. XIV, 1933-34, pp. 43-65.
[Unknown]
1933-1934
MS Edmonds 8Watson, White
A Delineation of the Strata of Derbyshire ...
Sheffield: Printed by W. Todd, at the Mercury Office, 1811; J. M. Edmonds's copy, accompanied by his notebook containing notes from and transcriptions of correspondence in the William Bateman Collection (1801-36) between Bateman and White Watson
[1984-152]
1811
MS Evans 113Rediadis, Perikles
Der Astrolabos von Antikythera
Translated by Dr W. Barth. Athens: {...}, 1903. Together with an English translation by Lewis Evans, 1913, in manuscript (bound together). Lewis Evans Collection
[Unknown]
1903
MS Evans 120Anonymous
"A Report of the Proceedings of the Philosophical Society in Northampton, from its Institution, Nov. 11, 1743, to the general Meeting, Nov. 5, 1745" and "Explanation of the Dial, Fig. III"
Extract from the Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. XVI, August 1746, pp. 475-478 and Plate V. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1746
MS Evans 120Anonymous
"On a Sun-Dial"
Extract from New Monthly Magazine, Vol.XX, no. LXXXII, October [inscription says November] 1827, pp. 352-358. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1827
MS Evans 120Anonymous
"Curious Dial"
Extract from The Mirror, November 21, 1829, pp. 345-347. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1829
MS Evans 120Anonymous
"Thoughts and By-Thoughts…On Sundials"
Extract from an unknown periodical, [c. 1886], pp. 662-665. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1886?
MS Evans 120Cox, J. Charles
"Notes on the Churches of Blything Hundred"
Extract from The Athenaeum, no. 4063, September 9, 1905, pp. 343-344. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1905
MS Evans 120D'Arnay
"An account of the first instruments for measuring time, introduced into Rome. From M. D'Arnay's private life of the Romans"
Extract from [Annual Re]gister, 1761. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1761
MS Evans 120Ferguson, James
"A new method of constructing Sun-Dials, for any given latitude, without the assistance of Dialling Scales, or Logarithmic Calculations"
Extract from the Gentleman's Magazine, March 1769, pp. 143-144 and plate. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1769
MS Evans 120Fothergill, G.A.
"The Glendoick Sundial"
Extract from The Antiquary, Vol. VI, no. 10, October 1910, pp. 388-389. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1910
MS Evans 120Hogg, Warrington
"Sun-Dials"
Extract from The Strand Magazine, June 1892, pp. 607-612 [& see below]. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1892
MS Evans 120Hogg, Warrington
"Sun-Dials Part 2"
Extract from The Strand Magazine, n.d. [1893/94] (loose). In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1893?
MS Evans 120Hopley, Howard
"Sun-Dial Mottoes"
Extract from The Leisure Hour, part 222, June 1870, pp. 413-415. In Scrapbook 'Sundial, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1870
MS Evans 120J.B.N.
"To make a Dial, which by moving a Label with Sights, shall tell the Hour of the Day, as in a common Clock, by a Minute and Hour Hand"
Extract from the Gentleman's Magazine, January 1754. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1754
MS Evans 120J.H.
"The most natural and obvious manner of constructing Sun-Dials, deduced from the situation and motion of the earth with respect to the sun, as explained in the scheme annexed"
Extract from the Gentleman's Magazine, July 1769, pp. 287-288 and folding plate. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1769
MS Evans 120Q.E.D.
"Self-Supplying Fountain and Sun-Dial"
Extract from The Mechanic and Chemist, Vol. V, no. 36, (new series no. 85), April 4, 1840, p. 272 and cover illustration. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1840
MS Evans 120Rawdon, John
"Some Sundials and their Story"
Extract from Home Words, Vol. XXXV, no. VIII, August 1905, pp. 170-172. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1905
MS Evans 120Sane Man
"The Collecting Maniac"
Extract from the Daily Mail, November 24, 1903. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1903
MS Evans 120Smeeton, G.
"Pulpit Ho[ur-] Glasses"
Extract from The Mirror, May 5, 1827, pp. 309-310. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1827
MS Evans 120Walker, Henry
"Sundials"
Extract from Agricultural Economist and Horticultural Review, March 1913, p. 62. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1913
MS Evans 120Woodward, Marcus
"Sun-Dials"
Extract from Pearson's Magazine, Vol. XXV, no. 149, May 1908, pp. 466-473. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1908
MS Evans 44Anonymous
Avis contenant les vrais moyens de regler les montres
Geneve & Turin, n.d. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
[n.d.]
MS FergusonBlank, Wilhelm
'Eine Sonderwirkung von Kapillarkraften'
Photostat of TS report.
[1972-166]
[n.d.]
MS FergusonTait, [Peter Guthrie]
'Note on a singular passage in the "Principia"'
by Professor Tait. TS.
[1972-167]
[n.d.]
MS Gabb 1Favaro, Antonio
"Attraverse il processo di Galileo"
extract from Emporium, 1919.
[1949- ]
1919
MS Gabb 1Favaro, Guiseppe
Antonio Favaro: Bio-bibliografia
1923
[1949- ]
1923
MS Gabb 7Enock, F.
"New Genera of British Mymaridae (Haliday)"
extract from Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1909.
[1949- ]
1909
MS Gabb 8Anonymous
"Mr Richard Kerr. F.G.S. F.R.A.S. | Science Lecturer to His Majesty's Prisons | His Striking Story of a New Elevating Power"
extract from Lloyd's Weekly News, January 28, 1912, p. 15. (Concerns Kerr's prison lectures, and includes picture of him lecturing at a bench with apparatus).
[1949- ]
1912
MS Gabb 9 (1)Goold, Joseph
Compound-Vibration Curves: Their Relation to Harmony & Musical Physics
London & Nottingham, 1877. Gabb Collection
[1949- ]
1877
MS Gabb 9 (1)Goold, Joseph
Sound-Production by Synchronisation
Nottingham / Melton Mowbray (printed), n.d. Gabb Collection
[1949- ]
[n.d.]
MS Gabb 9 (1)Goold, Joseph
A New Chapter in Musical Acoustics
Nottingham / Melton Mowbray (printed), n.d. Gabb Collection
[1949- ]
[n.d.]
MS Gabb 9 (1)Goold, Joseph
Sound-Curve Tracings, or Compound-Vibration Figures
Nottingham, n.d. 4 page (single sheet) leaflet. Gabb Collection
[1949- ]
[n.d.]
MS Gabb 9 (3)Somervell, Edith L.
A Rhythmic Approach to Mathematics
London & Liverpool: 1906. Preface by Mary Everest Boole.
[1949- ]
1906
MS Gabb 9 (4)R. G. W.
"Geometric Curves"
extract from [English Mechanic], August 9, 1907.
[1949- ]
1907
MS Gabb 9 (8)Williams, Archibald
"The Harmonograph"
extract from Pearson's Magazine, n.d. [c.1901], pp. 443-445
[1949- ]
1901?
MS Gabb 9 (9)Watts-Hughes, Margaret
The Eidophone Voice Figures. Geometrical and Natural Forms Produced by Vibrations of the Human Voice
[Second edition]. London: Published by the "Christian Herald" Company, Limited, 1904. Gabb Manuscripts; Richard Inwards's copy
[1949-10]
1904
MS Gabb {...}Perigal, Henry
Various titles
Various pamphlets and ephemeral publications issued privately by Henry Perigal, mostly on geometrical issues, including the 'moon controversy'. Collected by Richard Inwards; Gabb Collection
[1949- ]
[n.d.]
MS Gunther 11-13British Association for the Advancement of Science
The President's Address and the Sectional Addresses
for 1896 [&] for 1898. From the papers of Albert Gunther
[Unknown]
1896-1898?
MS Gunther 20 (1)Pereira da Silva, Luciano
'Astrolabes in Portugal'
Typescript [a translation of Pereira da Silva's Astrolabios Existentes em Portugal (Lisbon, 1917)]. Among papers of G. R. Kaye
[Unknown]
1917
MS Gunther 23Riddle, John
On the Corrections of Latitude and Middle Time, from Double Altitudes of the Sun
1850.
[Unknown]
1850
MS Gunther 23Riddle, John
"On Certain Properties of Mercator's Chart, ..."
extract from an unknown periodical, n.d. [1850].
[Unknown]
1850?
MS Gunther 25 (5)Jones, E. Rhys
'John Rose'
Typescript copy of an article from The Amesbury Parish Magazine, n.d. (Rose was gardener to King Charles II, and supposedly grew the first English pineapple).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
MS Gunther 25 (6)Roberts, W.
'The First English Pineapple'
Typescript copy of an article from The Gardeners' Chronicle, n.d. (The first English pineapple is attributed to John Rose, gardener to King Charles II).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
MS Gunther 25 (7)Cust, Lionel
'The First Pine-Apple Grown in England'
Typescript copy of an article from Apollo: A Journal of the Arts, n.d. (Part of a collection made by R. T. Gunther of research material on 17th-century fruit growing and horticulture).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
MS Gunther 31-33Galton, Francis
Anthropometric Laboratory ...
1884. (Guide to the Laboratory and its work, published for the International Health Exhibition, 1884).
[Unknown]
1884
MS Gunther 31-33Galton, Francis
"On Apparatus for Testing the Delicacy of the Muscular and other Senses in different Persons"
offprint from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, May 1883. Galton's own copy, kept with his apparatus
[Unknown]
1883
MS Gunther 36Lawrence, Josiah
Untitled
advertisement and circular letter relating to sundials made by him. 1841.
[Unknown]
1841
MS Gunther 36, p. 37Chamberlain, J. B.
Untitled
Advertisement including price list for his 'eye-preserving spectacles'. 1838.
[Unknown]
1838
MS Gunther 36, p. 48Henderson, E[benezer]
Untitled
2-page catalogue of his horological and astronomical instruments; n.d. [1830s].
[Unknown]
183-?
MS Gunther 36-38Anonymous
Obituary
of (or biographical article about) Johnson Jex (died 1852), 'the learned blacksmith of Letheringsett'; extract/offprint{?} from an unidentified periodical, n.d. [?c.1852].
[Unknown]
1852?
MS Gunther 37, p. 87Bennett, John
Untitled
catalogue leaflet of clocks and instruments; n.d. [c.1851].
[Unknown]
1851?
MS Gunther 38Anonymous
Obituary
of Peter Dollond (1731-1820); extract from The European Magazine for August 1820 [vol. LXXVIII], with engraved portrait.
[Unknown]
1820
MS Gunther 38De la Rue, Warren
"On Celestial Photography"
cutting from Literary Gazette, February 13, 1858, reporting or quoting a talk to the [Royal] Astronomical Society.
[Unknown]
1858
MS Gunther 46Cambridge University
Report of the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate For 1868
Cambridge: 1869.
[Unknown]
1869
MS Gunther 46Cambridge University
Report of the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate For 1871
Cambridge: 1872.
[Unknown]
1872
MS Gunther 46Cambridge University
Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Historic Scientific Apparatus in Cambridge
Cambridge: 1936. R. T. Gunther's copy, marked and altered for incorporation into his Early Science in Cambridge (1937).
[Unknown]
1936
MS Gunther 46Eve, A. S.; & others
"The Right Hon. Lord Rutherford of Nelson, O.M., F.R.S."
extract/offprint{?} from Nature, October 30, 1937, pp. 746-754. Obituary and recollections of Lord Rutherford by A. S. Eve and others.
[Unknown]
1937
MS Gunther 46Larmor, Sir Joseph
"Thomas Young"
extract from Nature, February 24, 1934, pp. 276-279.
[Unknown]
1934
MS Gunther 47Anonymous
"A Hair Helped to Hang Him!"
extract from The Evening News, October 5, 1934. (Concerns the forensic use of the microscope).
[Unknown]
1934
MS Gunther 47Anonymous
"Sir Ray Lankester, K.C.B."
extract from The Strand Magazine, vol. XLII no. 36, n.d. [September 1911], pp. 312-317. (A profile, not an obituary).
[Unknown]
1911?
MS Gunther 47Anonymous
"Interesting People in All Ranks"
extract from Throne, March 27, 1912, p. 495. (Pictures and biographical notices of three industrialists: Robert Wallace Martin, Thomas Hugh Powell, and Rudolph Diesel).
[Unknown]
1912
MS Gunther 47Bingham, A. E.
"The Microscope in Engineering and Industry"
extract from Nature, October 24, 1936, p. 715. (Report of an address by Bingham).
[Unknown]
1936
MS Gunther 47Desch, C. H.
"The Microscope and the Metal Industries"
extract from Nature, February 9, 1935. (Report of a lecture by Desch).
[Unknown]
1935
MS Gunther 47Jackson, W. Hatchett
"Note on a point in the use of Oil of Cloves in microscopical work"
offprint from Zoologischen Anzeiger, no. 322, 1889.
[Unknown]
1889
MS Gunther 47Nelson, E. M.
"On the Formation of Diatom Structure, II"
offprint from The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, vol. III series II no. 23, January 1889, pp. 308-309.
[Unknown]
1889
MS Gunther 47Nelson, E. M.
"Some Observations on the Human Spermatozoon"
offprint from The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, vol. III series II no. 23, January 1889, pp. 310-314.
[Unknown]
1889
MS Gunther 47Nelson, E. M.
"Powell's Iron Microscope"
offprint from the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1899, pp. 209-214.
[Unknown]
1899
MS Gunther 47Nelson, Edward M.
"The Microscopes of Powell, Ross, and Smith ... II. - Andrew Ross's Microscopes"
offprint from the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1900, pp. 425-438.
[Unknown]
1900
MS Gunther 47Singer, Charles
"The Dawn of Microscopical Discovery"
offprint from the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1915, pp. 317-340.
[Unknown]
1915
MS Gunther 47Singer, Charles
"Notes on the Early History of Microscopy"
offprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol. VII, 1914, pp. 247-279.
[Unknown]
1914
MS Gunther 51Day, W.
"The Portrayal of Movement. History of Cinematography. From Camera Obscura to the Living Picture"
extract from The Times Film Number of March 19, 1929. Pasted into a notebook, with other cuttings from the same source.
[Unknown]
1929
MS Gunther 51Times
Various titles
extracts from The Times Film Number of March 19, 1929, pasted into a notebook. Comprising: contents list; leading article "The Cinematograph Industry"; part of the report on "Film Aesthetic"; and an article by W. Day, "The Portrayal of Movement. History of Cinematography. From Camera Obscura to the Living Picture".
[Unknown]
1929
MS Gunther 53Fuchs, Leonhart
'De Stirpium Historia ...'
Richard Pulteney's rearrangement of the woodcut illustrations from Fuchs's 1545 herbal according to the Linnean system. MS title page [presumably in Pulteney's hand] reads: 'Hamsterley Library. Leonharti Fuchsii Medici primi de Stirpium Historia Commentariorum tomi uiuae imagines. Pars altera. Basileae. 1545. Ad Systema Linnaeanum Redactae'. From the library of John Lee of Hartwell House
[Unknown]
1545
MS Gunther 6Gunther, R. T.
"Some Unedited Accounts of Edward Gibbon"
extract [?] from Notes and Queries, August 25, 1923. [First part only; the other parts were September 1 and 8].
[Unknown]
1923
MS Gunther 61Henry Bate of Malines
'Magistralis compositio astrolabii'
MS transcription of Bodleian Library, Ashmole 465, the version of Magistralis compositio astrolabii by Henry Bate printed at Venice in 1485. Copied by Miss [E. G.] Parker for R. T. Gunther, and used in 1930 for typesetting the version of Henry's treatise printed in The Astrolabes of the World (published 1932).
[Unknown]
1930?
MS Gunther 64Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900
A Letter to Dr Hooker ... from Dr Acland ...
Oxford: {...}, 1875. (Concerning the proposed removal of the Botanic Garden to the Science Area).
[Unknown]
1875
MS Gunther 64Botanic Garden, Oxford
Annual Report of the Curators of the Botanic Garden
1st to 7th, 9th, 10th, 17th, and 20th. Oxford: 1888-1907.
[Unknown]
1888-1907
MS Gunther 64Botanic Garden, Oxford
Delectus Seminum Horti Botanici Universitatis Oxoniensis
2 issues. Oxford: 1890 and 1891.
[Unknown]
1890-1891
MS Gunther 65Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900
Report to the Radcliffe Trustees for 1876, with a note on some points in the recent administration of science apparatus in the University of Oxford
Oxford: {...}, 1876.
[Unknown]
1876
MS Gunther 65Burdon-Sanderson, J. S.
The School of Medical Science in Oxford
Oxford: 1892.
[Unknown]
1892
MS Gunther 65Smith, Frederick J. [Jervis-Smith, Frederick J.]
Inducto-Script
n.d. [patented 1892].
[Unknown]
1892?
MS Gunther 65Steel, R. Elliot
"Science Teaching in Our Public Schools"
offprint from Journal of Education, April 1883, paginated 1-6 here. [Steel is evidently science master at Bradford Grammar School].
[Unknown]
1883
MS Gunther 71Pointer, John
Oxoniensis Academia: or, the Antiquities and Curiosities of the University of Oxford. Giving an Account of all the Public Edifices, both Ancient and Modern, particularly the Colleges and Halls, ... Theatre, Musaeums ... Together with Lists of the Founders ... Also Lists of the Chancellors, ... Keepers of the Archives and Musaeums ...
London: Printed for S. Birt, in Ave-Maria Lane; and J. Ward, in Little-Britain. and others. 1749. 8vo. NB: MS notes on fly-leaves; and section on Ashmolean Museum pp. 156-165 and 253. MS notes by ?T. VereBaque. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1749
MS Gunther 72Anonymous
The Oxford University and City Guide, On a New Plan; containing a full description of the Colleges, Halls, Public Buildings, Libraries, Gardens, Walks, Pictures, and Statues, in Oxford: with an Account of the Dresses, Examinations, Degrees, Distinctive Ranks, Manners, Customs, etc. of the Members of the University; To which is added A Guide to Blenheim, Nuneham, and the newly-discovered Roman Villa, near Northleigh
Second edition. Oxford: Printed and sold by Munday and Slatter, n.d. [c.1818]. (Also variant, engraved title page with shorter title). (Ashmolean Museum pp. 65-68). Signed by H. F. Spens, 1818, and bound with his MS journal of a tour on the Continent, 1820. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1818?
MS Gunther 73Henderson, Ebenezer
Life of James Ferguson, F.R.S., in a brief Autobiographical Account, and further Extended Memoir
Edinburgh, London, & Glasgow: A. Fullarton & Co., 1867 [and 1870]. First edition, 1867, modified into a second edition, 1870, by the addition of a gathering of pages consisting of the 'Addenda' and the new title page. Also containing MS letters from Henderson and other additions. Nicholas Milne's copy; Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1867-1870
MS Gunther 80Adcock, Robert
Tables of the Teeth of Wheels
Sheet issued with The Engineer, 1869.
[Unknown]
1869
MS Gunther 80Hopkins, T. H. T.
"Specimens of Ornamental Surface Turning"
extract from The Forge & Lathe, new series no. 17, 1878, p. 278. Cutting of the short text, together with separately printed impressions (perhaps proofs) of some of the accompanying designs, in Hopkins's own scrapbook; the 2 plates as published are not present here [but there are copies in Prints].
[Unknown]
1878
MS Gunther 83Daubeny, [Charles]
Catalogue of the Philosophical Apparatus, Minerals, Geological Specimens, etc. in the possession of Dr Daubeny, Praelector of Natural Philosophy in Magdalen College, and now deposited in the building contiguous to the Botanic Gardens, belonging to that society
Oxford: Printed by James Wright, 1861. Slightly annotated by R. T. Gunther.
[Unknown]
1861
MS Gunther 84Stevens's Auction Rooms
A Catalogue of the Collection of Antique Microscopes, formed by the late Sir Frank Crisp, Bart. ... to be sold on Tuesday, February 17, 1925
London: Stevens's Auction Rooms Ltd., 1925. Auction sale catalogue. (Cover title: 'The Crisp Collection of Antique Microscopes'). R. T. Gunther's copy, with many annotations and insertions (but lacking the illustrations)
[Unknown]
1925
MS Gunther 90Nelson, Edward Milles
"Comets"
Bristol, June 1931 [privately distributed by the author]. Duplicated typescipt of 5 leaves, covered and bound for distribution as a pamphlet.
[Unknown]
1931
MS Gunther ArchiveAnonymous
First Book of Arithmetic for the Use of Schools
Revised and Corrected. Published by Direction of the Commissioners of National Education, Ireland. Dublin: Alexander Thom, Printer & Publisher, 1875. R. T. Gunther's copy (owned by him as a child)
[1971-39]
1875
MS Gunther ArchiveBellamy, F. A.
Statement and Comments upon the Result of a Proffered Gift to the University of Oxford
Oxford: For Private Circulation, October 1926. Reprints of Bellamy's letter in The Times, June 9, 1926, and article in The Oxford Times, June 25, 1926, concerning his philatelic library and collection. In R. T. Gunther's scrapbook 'Album of Printed Matter' vol.II.
[Unknown
1926
MS Gunther ArchiveBerry, Veronica
The Rolfe Papers: The Chronicle of a Norfolk Family 1559-1908
Norwich: Published by the Author, 1979. Presented by A. E. Gunther Esq.
[1979-325]
1979
MS Gunther ArchiveDante Alighieri
Tutte le Opere di Dante Alighieri
Three volumes. Edited by E. Moore. Oxford University Press, 1895. Bound in green leather with fleur-de-lys and NR motifs, and inscribed 'Amy Neville-Rolfe / from R.T.G. / Xmas 1895', and 'Presented to the Museum of the History of Science by A. E. Gunther, 1980'.
[1980-62]
1895
MS Gunther ArchiveDante Alighieri
The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
Translated by Henry Francis Cary. New Edition, corrected, with the Life of Dante, chronological index of his age, additional notes, and index. London: Bell & Daldy, 1864. Bookplates of 'E. Neville-Rolfe' and 'Albert Everard Gunther'; stamped 'E. R. Gunther'; Presented by A. E. Gunther Esq.
[1980-63]
1864
MS Gunther ArchiveGunther, A. E.
The Age of Heacham's Older Buildings (North West Norfolk) 1726-1890: Factual and Surmised
Heacham: Published by A. E. Gunther, 1991. Presented by the author
[1991-118]
1991
MS Gunther ArchiveGunther, A. E.
The Age of Heacham's Older Buildings (North West Norfolk) 1726-1890: Factual and Surmised
Second edition. Heacham, Norfolk: Published by A. E. Gunther, 1993. Presented by the author
[1994-106]
1993
MS Gunther ArchiveGunther, R. T.
Early Science in Oxford
[Vol. I] Part II - Mathematics. [Three copies, paper bound, with one proof copy, stiff bound, of pp. 103-187, not contained in other volumes. The latter is a proof copy]. Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford. 1922.
[Unknown]
1922
MS Gunther ArchiveGunther, R. T.
Early Science in Oxford
[Vol. I] Parts III & IV - Physics and Surveying. [Two proof copies, with MS corrections]. Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford. 1923. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1923
MS Gunther ArchiveLodge, Richard
The Private Correspondence of Sir Benjamin Keene, K. B.
Edited and with Introduction by Sir Richard Lodge. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1933. Together with documents relating to the editing and publication of Keene's correspondence, from R. T. Gunther's papers.
[Unknown]
1933
MS Gunther ArchiveTurner, H. H.
"Preliminary Report of the Expedition to Aswan to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of August 30, 1905"
offprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, A vol. 77, 1905, pp. 77-96.
[Unknown]
1905
MS Gunther Archive[Turner, H. H.]
"Ancient Scientific Instruments: The Evans Collection in Oxford"
extract from The Times, December 8, 1922. Original cutting in MS Gunther Archive, Newspaper Cuttings vol. I, pp. 49-50. (Photocopies in file U & file OXF).
[Unknown]
1922
MS Gunther Archive addGunther, R. T.
Early Science in Oxford - Plates
Bound volume containing plates (only) from volumes I and II of Early Science in Oxford [1920-23]. From the papers of R. T. Gunther (bookplate).
[Unknown]
1920-23
MS Gunther Archive addGunther, R. T.; James, T. E.
Early Science at the Royal Society & at Oxford. 1924-26
Bound volume of cuttings from Nature, 1924-31, mainly of two series of articles entitled "Early Science at the Royal Society" by T. E. James and "Early Science in Oxford" by R. T. Gunther [extracts from volume 4 of the series of books of that title]. From the paper of R. T. Gunther.
[Unknown]
1924-31
MS Gunther {...}Anonymous
Practical Elementary Zoology
Pro-forma exercise book with printed captions and spaces for student's drawings. Printed by Oxford Universiy Press. Some drawings completed by R. T. Gunther. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
[n.d.]
MS Gunther {...}Anonymous
"Early Science at the Royal Society"
extracts from Nature, 1924-1929{?}. Series of articles. Bound with cuttings of R. T. Gunther's series "Early Science at Oxford" under the collective title 'Early Science at the Royal Society and at Oxford'. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1924-1929?
MS Gunther {...}Gunther, R. T.
"Early Science at Oxford"
extracts from Nature, 1924-1929{?}. Series of articles. Bound with cuttings of the anonymous series "Early Science at the Royal Society" under the collective title 'Early Science at the Royal Society and at Oxford'. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1924-1929?
MS Gunther {...}Stevens's Auction Rooms
A Catalogue of the Collection of Antique Microscopes, formed by the late Sir Frank Crisp, Bart.
It includes many rare and beautiful Instruments, by Hooke, Marshall, Campani, Culpeper, Brander, Costa, Scarlett, Adams and Martin. To be sold at Stevens's Auction Rooms, Ltd., 38 King Street, Covent Garden, and 15/16 Floral Street. Tuesday, February 17th, 1925. R. T. Gunther's annotated copy. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1925
MS Ludlow-Hewitt 1Moseley, H. G. J.
"The High-Frequency Spectra of the Elements"
(2 parts) offprint from the Philosophical Magazine, December 1913 and April 1914, pp. 1024-1034 and 703-713. Bound with Moseley's testimonials (1914).
[Unknown]
1913-1914
MS Ludlow-Hewitt 1Moseley, H. G. J.
"Atomic Models and X-Ray Spectra"
offprint from Nature, January 15, 1914, p. 554. Bound with Moseley's testimonials (1914).
[Unknown]
1914
MS Ludlow-Hewitt 1Moseley, H. G. J.
"The Reflection of X-Rays"
offprint from Nature, January 30, 1913, p. 594. Bound with Moseley's testimonials (1914).
[Unknown]
1913
MS Ludlow-Hewitt 1Moseley, H. G. J.
"The Number of b-Particles Emitted in the Transformation of Radium"
offprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. LXXXVII, 1912, pp. 230-255. Bound with Moseley's testimonials (1914).
[Unknown]
1912
MS Ludlow-Hewitt 1Moseley, H. G. J.
"The Attainment of High Potentials by the Use of Radium"
offprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. LXXXVIII, 1913, pp. 471-476. Bound with Moseley's testimonials (1914).
[Unknown]
1913
MS Ludlow-Hewitt 1Moseley, H. G. J.; Darwin, C. G.
"The Reflexion of the X-Rays"
offprint from the Philosophical Magazine, July 1913, pp. 210-232. Bound with Moseley's testimonials (1914).
[Unknown]
1913
MS Ludlow-Hewitt 1Moseley, H. G. J.; Fajans, K.
"Radioactive Products of Short Life"
offprint from the Philosophical Magazine, October 1911, pp. 629-638. Bound with Moseley's testimonials (1914).
[Unknown]
1911
MS Ludlow-Hewitt 1Moseley, H. G. J.; Robinson, H.
"The Number of Ions Produced by b and d Radiations from Radium"
offprint from the Philosophical Magazine, September 1914, pp. 327-337. Bound with Moseley's testimonials (1914).
[Unknown]
1914
MS Museum 118Rutherford, E.
"Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley"
offprint from Nature, September 9, 1915, separately paginated. Obituary.
[Unknown]
1915
MS Museum 119Boulton, M. P. W.
On Aerial Locomotion
London: Printed by Bradbury & Evans, 1864. 7 pages. Photocopy in file V.
[Unknown]
1864
MS Museum 119Sotheby & Co., Messrs. S. Leigh
Catalogue of the Principal Portion of the Choice and Valuable Library of the late James Watt, Esq. of Aston Hall, Warwickshire …
[Auction catalogue] April 23d, 1849. James P. Muirhead's copy (signed)
[Unknown]
1849
MS Museum 121Anonymous
Obituary
of Frederick Soddy; extract from The Times, September 24, 1956.
[Unknown]
1956
MS Museum 121Anonymous
"Frederick Soddy"
extract from Les prix Nobel en 1921-1922, [Stockholm, 1923], pp. 128-9. Part of F. M. Brewer's collection of Soddy papers
[1964-95/7]
1923
MS Museum 121Howorth, Muriel (ed.)
An Appreciation of Professor Frederick Soddy (1877-1956) ...
n.d. [1956]. Small format, 11-page pamphlet, with contributions by his brother T. S. [correctly E.] Soddy, Muriel Howorth, and F. M. Brewer.
[Unknown]
1956?
MS Museum 121New Europe Group
In Commemoration of Professor Frederick Soddy ...
London: New Europe Group, n.d. [1957]. Pamphlet containing: Anon., "Frederick Soddy and the New Europe Group"; and "Report of the Meeting of Commemoration Held on the Eve of the First Anniversary of the Death of Frederick Soddy ..."; latter consists of messages and talks by various, including F. M. Brewer.
[Unknown]
1957?
MS Museum 121Paneth, F. A.
"A Tribute to Frederick Soddy"
offprint from Nature, vol. 180, November 23, 1957, pp. 1085-1087 (separately paginated here). Two copies. One copy inscribed by the author to Frederick M. Brewer; part of Brewer's collection of Soddy papers
[1964-95/8]
1957
MS Museum 121Soddy, Frederick
"Petition to the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council ..."
1927; (Printed petition to the Privy Council re. changes to the University Statutes relating to the post of Aldrichian Praelector in Chemistry)
[Unknown]
1927
MS Museum 121Soddy, Frederick
The Origins of the Conception of Isotopes
Nobel Lecture Delivered at Stockholm on December 12th. 1922 Stockholm: 1923
[Unknown]
1923
MS Museum 121Soddy, Frederick
The Kiss Precise | The Hexlet | and The Bowl of Integers
pamphlet containing reprints of Soddy's poems "The Kiss Precise" and "The Hexlet" (from Nature, vol. 137, June 20, 1936, p. 1021, and vol. 138, December 5, 1936, p. 958), his article "The Bowl of Integers and the Hexlet" (Nature, vol. 139, January 9, 1937, pp. 77[?-79]), and two responses (Nature, vol. 139, January 9, 1937, pp. 62 and 72; January 23, 1937, p. 154; February 6, 1937, p. 251).
[Unknown]
1936-1937
MS Museum 121Soddy, Frederick
The Cubic Equation with Three Real Roots: Its Geometrical Diagram and a machine that solves it
Second edition; London: New World Publications, 1956
[Unknown]
1956
MS Museum 124[Chemical Society]
"Catalogue of Alchemical and Early Chemical Books presented to the Chemical Society by Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S."
in Proceedings of the Chemical Society, vol. 22 no. 313, July 18, 1906, pp. 209-233. Among papers concerning the library of the Old Chemistry Department, Oxford.
[Unknown]
1906
MS Museum 125[Green, Arthur Robert]
'Sonnenuhren | ein [?...] Sonnenuhren oder | Messe-Uhren'
N.d. [between 1926 & 1957]. MS translation in three exercise books of Arthur Robert Green, Sundials: Incised Dials or Mass-Clocks ... , first published 1926. No title page, but Green's name is rendered after the introduction as 'Artur Robert Grun'. Presented by Dr C. H. Josten in 1957
[1957- ]
1926?
MS Museum 132Tizard, H. T.
Obituary
of Nevil Vincent Sidgwick; offprint from Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. IX, November 1954, pp. 237-258 and portrait.
[Unknown]
1954
MS Museum 167Bowen, E. J.
'The Alembic Club. The First Fifty Years'
1967. Photocopied unpublished MS; together with (loosely enclosed) similar notes on the history of the 'Oxford University Chemical Club'. Presented by the author
[1973-43]
1967
MS Museum 171Anonymous [Higgins, Kathleen]
'Catalogue of Sundials'
Unpublished typescript, together with letter dated 1954. [1953]. (Catalogue of the collection in the Museum of the History of Science).
[Unknown]
1953?
MS Museum 179Nelson, Edward M.
Micrometric Table
London: {...}, 1914
[Unknown]
1914
MS Museum 193Sommerville, D. M. Y.
"Description of a Planisphere"
offprint[?] from New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, vol. II, 1919, pp. 193-195. Accompanies Sommerville's planisphere for latitude 40o S., made in 1917.
[Unknown]
1919
MS Museum 193Sommerville, D. M. Y.
"Description of a planisphere"
offprint{?} from New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, vol. 2, 1919, pp. 193-5. (Attached to the back of Sommerville's planisphere = MS Museum 193; kept in Prints).
[Unknown]
1919
MS Museum 204Du Cane, Edmund F.
"The Quadrilateral"
extract from the Cornhill Magazine, January 1862, pp. 93-104. In bound volume of Du Cane's articles.
[Unknown]
1862
MS Museum 204Du Cane, Edmund F.
The Fortification of our Dockyards, etc.
Printed for private circulation by the Royal United Service Institution. n.d. [?c.1862]. Loosely inserted in bound volume of Du Cane's articles.
[Unknown]
1862?
MS Museum 204Du Cane, Edmund F.
"Notes on a Timber Grown in Western Australia, which is Proof against the White Ant and Sea Worm"
extract from a newspaper [probably The Times], n.d. [c.1860]. In bound volume of Du Cane's articles.
[Unknown]
1860?
MS Museum 204Du Cane, Edmund F.
"Bonaparte's Campaigns in Italy"
extract from an unidentified newspaper, May 28, 1859. In bound volume of Du Cane's articles.
[Unknown]
1859
MS Museum 204Du Cane, Edmund F.
"Probable Strategy of the War in Italy"
extract from an unidentified newspaper, May 7, 1859. In bound volume of Du Cane's articles.
[Unknown]
1859
MS Museum 204Du Cane, Edmund F.
"Fortification in Iron"
extract from an unidentified periodical, 1862, pp. 277-290 and 7 plates. In bound volume of Du Cane's articles.
[Unknown]
1862
MS Museum 204Du Cane, Edmund F.
"The Convict System in the Colonies"
extract from an unidentified periodical, 1963, pp. 513-527. In bound volume of Du Cane's articles.
[Unknown]
1963
MS Museum 204Du Cane, Sir Edmond F.
Various titles
Bound collection of printed pamphlets on miscellaneous subjects, annotated by the author. [For further details see MS Catalogue]. Presented by A. W. Pullan, Esq.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
MS Museum 222Hartnack, E., et A. Prazmowski
Prix-Courant des Microscopes Achromatiques de E. Hartnack et A. Prazmowski | Succrs de G. Oberhaeuser | 1874 | 1, Rue Bonaparte, 1 | Paris
Paris: 1874. 7-page catalogue. Together with 2 MS letters from the firm, 1875.
[1978-496]
1874
MS Museum 224Higgins, Kathleen
'The Development of the Sun-Dial Between A.D. 1400 and 1800'
Carbon typescript thesis [for B.Sc., Oxford], 1953.
[Unknown]
1953
MS Museum 25Anonymous
"The Largest Sun Dial in the World"
cutting of illustration and short article from an Irish newspaper, n.d. [?late 19th-century]. (Re. the architectural sundial at Jai Singh's Delhi observatory).
[Unknown]
18--?
MS Museum 25Anonymous
"Sun-Dials and Hourglasses"
extract from Chambers's Journal, October 12, 1889, pp. 651-653.
[Unknown]
1889
MS Museum 25Anonymous
"Dialing"
extract from [the Encyclopedia Londinensis], vol. V part II, n.d. [late 18th-century], pp. 786-804 and plates CLVIII-CLXI.
[Unknown]
17--?
MS Museum 25Encyclopedia Londinensis
"Dialing"
extract from [the Encyclopedia Londinensis], vol. V part II, n.d. [late 18th-century], pp. 786-804 and plates CLVIII-CLXI.
[Unknown]
17--?
MS Museum 25Hogg, Warrington
"Sun-Dials | Part 2"
extract from The Strand Magazine, n.d. [1893], pp. 308-318 (illustrated from Hogg's own drawings, mostly dated 1893).
[Unknown]
1893?
MS Museum 25Rawdon, John
"Some Sundials and their Story"
extract from Home Words, vol. XXXV no. VIII, n.d. [c.1890], pp. 171-172 (illustrated from photographs).
[Unknown]
1890?
MS Museum 257Taylor, Mark
'Sundials, their meaning, their making and mending'
1973. Photocopied typescript in ring binder.
[1980-10]
1973
MS Museum 258McCrae, John
A Chronologically Arranged List of People Concerned in the Development of Chemistry'
1951. Carbon typescript. (Contains 1,008 entries).
[Unknown]
1951
MS Museum 259Charliat, P-J.
'L'Academie Royale de Marine (1752-1793)' & 'L'Academie Royale de Marine et la Revolution Nautique au XVIII eme siecle'
Typescript copies of two papers, the latter dated 27/5/52, presented to the Museum by the author on 21/9/54. (Bound in one file). (*) Presented by the author
[1954- ]
1952?
MS Museum 260Hanson, J. F.
'The History of Anaesthetics'
Carbon typescript of a thesis or paper. Westminster College [near Oxford], [1960]. Together with an envelope containing photographs of apparatus etc. [in MHS]. Presented by the author
[1960-66]
1960?
MS Museum 275Phillips, John
Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1871. Together with, loosely enclosed: review by Archibald Geikie, extracted from The Academy, vol. III no. 49, June 1, 1872, pp. 212-3; and three autograph letters to Phillips on geological matters, 1873, two from the surgeon J. W. Hulke and one from Thomas (?) Davidson. [?] Possibly John Phillips's own copy
[1987-129]
1871
MS Museum 276Lovell, A. C. B.
"Memorandum on a 250ft aperture Steerable Radio Telescope"
February 1951; With chapters by J. A. Clegg and J. G. Davies; Presented by Sir Bernard Lovell
[1979-17]
1951
MS Museum 277Anonymous
A Description of the Nature and Motions of Comets, with a history of Several Comets, Which have appeared since the Year 1337; to which is added, an account of the Comet of the Year 1811
Stamford: Printed and sold by J. Drakard, n.d. [c.1811]. Bound with a MS on the same theme and of about the same date, apparently by J. W. Woollgar. Presented by Dr C. H. Josten
[1957-45]
1811?
MS Museum 278Dickson, Alexander
Syllabus of Lectures on Botany
Glasgow: Printed at the University Press, 1876.
[Unknown]
1876
MS Museum 279Mallock, A.
"Growth of Trees, with a Note on Interference Bands formed by Rays at Small Angles"
offprint from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, vol. 90, 1918, pp. 186-199. (Recieved 1/xii/17). (With three photographs attached, and notes of the growth of the same trees in July 1918).
[Unknown]
1918
MS Museum 279 (2)C. V. B. [Boys, C. V.]
"Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock - 1851-1933"
offprint from Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, no. 2, 1933, pp. 95-98 and portrait. Together with several archival enclosures, including a letter to Mallock from J. Larmor, 1929.
[Unknown]
1933
MS Museum 282Gray, H. J.
"Experiments with H. J. Gray's Drawing Room Radium Outfit"
February 1, 1923; Duplicated MS instruction pamphlet for the drawing room radium outfit, 8 pages; together with 4-page advertisement / catalogue leaflet
[Unknown]
1923
MS Museum 300Taylor, F. Sherwood
'Greek Alchemy'
2 volumes; carbon typescript. [University College London Ph.D. thesis, 1931]. [Unpublished, but for articles arising from it (the first containing its main substance) see F. Sherwood Taylor, “A Survey of Greek Alchemy”, Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. L [no. 1], 1930, pp. 109-139; and “The Origins of Greek Alchemy”, Ambix, vol. I no. 1, May 1937, pp. 30-47].
[Unknown]
1931
MS Museum 304Hackmann, W. D.
"John and Jonathan Cuthbertson: The Invention and Development of the 18th Century Plate Electrical Machine"
Essay submitted for the Jane Willis Kirkaldy Prize, Oxford, 1972.
[1973-26]
1972
MS Museum 305Morris, Peter J. T.
'18th Century British Chemists: Their Ideas and Education'
Jane Willis Kirkaldy Prize Essay, 1978. [Oxford].
[1979-288]
1978
MS Museum 42Anonymous
"The Temple Sundials"
extract from an unidentified newspaper [early 20th century]. (Re. sundials in the Temple region of London).
[Unknown]
19--?
MS Museum 42Anonymous
"The Production of High Quality Electric Lamps: British Enterprise in the Search for Increasing Efficiency: Longer Life at Small Initial Cost"
extract from The Daily Telegraph, November 15, 1933, p. 18. By Our Engineering Correspondent.
[Unknown]
1933
MS Museum 42Firth, J. B.
"Oxford's Treasures in the Old Ashmolean: New Destiny for the Antiquary's Foundation"
extract from The Daily Telegraph, March 5, 1937.
[Unknown]
1937
MS Museum 42Gunther, R. T.
"Jacob's Staff: A 17th-Century Picture"
extract from The Times, September 18, 1937. Letter to the editor.
[Unknown]
1937
MS Museum 42Lambda
"The University and the Nation ... IV. - The Scholarship System"
extracts from The Westminster Gazette, February 23, 1906, pp. 1-2 (followed by related letters to the editor from Warren and Spooner); and from The Saturday Westminster Gazette, February 24, 1906. (The same article printed twice).
[Unknown]
1906
MS Museum 42Lucas, E. V.
"A Wanderer's Note-Book: Snakes"
extract from The Sunday Times, September 19, 1937, p. 16; (Refers particularly to Frank Buckland)
[Unknown]
1937
MS Museum 42Shanks, Edward
"Legend of a Lost Continent"
extract from The Sunday Times, August 29, 1937; Review of James Bramwell, Lost Atlantis
[Unknown]
1937
MS Museum 61M[erlin], A. A. C. E.
"Edward Milles Nelson ..."
offprint from the Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, series IV vol. I no. 2, October 1938, separately paginated (5 pages & plate). Obituary.
[Unknown]
1938
MS Museum 61Nelson, E. M.
"Powell's Iron Microscope"
uncut single-sheet ?offprint or proof [from the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1899, pp. 209-214]. 2 copies, the other one is filed in file E - oversize.
[Unknown]
1899
MS Museum 61 (1)Cuff, John
The Description Of a New-constructed Double Microscope: in which Some Useful Improvements are introduced: As Made and Sold by the Inventor, John Cuff, In Fleet-Street, London
London: 1744 [or later]. 12-page pamphlet (disbound) + folding plate (loose). Plate & pamphlet (p. 4) dated September 20, 1744 [but this is a variant printing presumably later than 1744; cf. other copy].
[Unknown]
1744?
MS Museum 64Bonomi, Joseph
Catechism of Health, or 'The Sound Mind in a Sound Body - How Maintained'
London: Job Caudwell, n.d. Together with 4 portraits and an obituary of the author [d.1878] enclosed.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
MS Museum 80Anonymous
Account of the Westminster New Lying-in Hospital
n.d. [after 1765]. Among the papers of John Soper Streeter
[Unknown]
1765?
MS Museum 80Leake, John
New Proposals for a Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery ...
n.d. [Leake died 1792]. Among the papers of John Soper Streeter.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
MS Museum 85Turner, H. H.
"Mechanical Map to find the time of "Lighting Up" or Sunset (or Sunrise) at any Place and any Date"
August 31, 1902. Together with other related papers.
[Unknown]
1902
MS Museum 85Turner, H. H.
"On Graphical Methods of determining the Local or Greenwich Time of Sunset at different places within a given region"
offprint from Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, January 1904. Together with other papers relating to Turner's interest in determining sunset or lighting-up time.
[Unknown]
1904
MS Museum Archive altGabb, G. H.
'Catalogue of the Gabb Collection of Early & Historical Scientific Instruments'
Two versions: the final carbon copy, bound in leather; and an earlier carbon copy, corrected and added to in pencil - this also contains a List of Photographs of some objects in the collection.
[1960-30] & [Unknown]
[n.d.]
MS North 25Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists
Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists
Vol. LX, October 1944. Contains editorial entitled "The First John Mercer Lecture", and printed version of this lecture, "Science in an Old Industry" by N. G. McCulloch & G. S. Hibbert.
[Unknown]
1944
MS North 25McCulloch, N. G.; Hibbert, G. S.
"Science in an Old Industry"
in Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists, vol. LX, October 1944; (The first John Mercer Lecture; see also the editorial, "The First John Mercer Lecture")
[Unknown]
1944
MS North 7Parnell, Edward A.
The Life and Labours of John Mercer, F.R.S., F.C.S., etc., The Self-Taught Chemical Philosopher; including Numerous Recipes used at the Oakenshaw Calico Print-Works
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1886. 2 copies [both belong to MS North 7, but one is kept on the bookshelves].
[Unknown]
1886
MS North 9Marsh, J. T.
"A John Mercer Centenary"
photocopy from an unidentified periodical, May 15, 1944.
[Unknown]
1944
MS Oriel College 2[Atkins, Anna, 1799-1871]
Photographs of British Algae. Cyanotype Impressions
By A.A. October 1843. The first fascicule only, consisting of 12 pages sewn in blue wrappers, each page being a cyanotype or blueprint photograph, 8 illustrating algae and the 4 introductory pages reproducing the author's holograph. Lent by Oriel College
[Unknown]
1843
MS Radcliffe 29[Rowning, John]
A Compleat Course of Experimental Philosophy and Astronomy
n.d. [mid 18th C.]. Annotated 'Mr. Rowning's Syllabus'. (Pamphlet containing outline or syllabus of course only).
[Unknown]
18--?
MS Radcliffe 39Maskelyne, Nevil
A Plan for observing the Meteors called fire-balls
1783.
[Unknown]
1783
MS Radcliffe 72/2/3Russell, John
A Description of the Lunar Planispheres engraved by the late John Russell, Esq. R. A. from his Original Drawings
London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. Cleveland-Row, for the editor, William Russell, no. 17, Newman-Street: and sold by W. Faden ... [and others], 1809.
[?1934-42]
1809
MS Radcliffe 72/2/6Stone, E. J.
"Note on a Crayon Drawing of the Moon by John Russell, R. A., at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford"
offprint from Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. LVI no. 3, January 1896, pp. 88-95 and plate. Together with related correspondence (MS Radcliffe 72/2/4), further copies of the woodburytype photograph included in the article (MS Radcliffe 72/2/7), and the original glass negatives of this and the other illustration (MS Radcliffe 73).
[?1934-42]
1896
MS Radcliffe 72/2/8Anonymous
"A Portrait-Painter Who Studied the Moon"
extract from The Illustrated London News, October 18, 1930, pp. 673-674 and I-III (colour insert). Extracted from an article by E. J. Stone ... . [An illustrated article purporting to be extracted from Stone's 1896 paper but in fact quite different, except that it quotes Russell's letter at length, as in Stone's paper]. Another copy in file D under Stone.
[?1934-42]
1930
MS RMS 19 & 20Kent, W. Saville
[Infusoria]
A version of Kent's Infusoria (2 volumes, 1880 & 1881) compiled by E. B. L. Brayley in 1917-18, and entitled 'A Synopsis of A Manual of Infusoria, etc., etc., by W. Saville Kent, F.R.S., F.R.M.S., 1880-81 ...'. 2 volumes. Royal Microscopical Society Collection
[Unknown]
1917-1918
MS RMS 3Hudson, C. T.; Gosse, P. H.
'A Synopsis of The Rotifera; or Wheel-Animalcules, Both British and Foreign, by C. T. Hudson, LL.D. (cantab.), F.R.S., Assisted by P. H. Gosse, F.R.S.'
A version of Hudson & Gosse's The Rotifera (2 volumes, 1886 & 1889) compiled by E. B. L. Brayley in 1915, and entitled [as above ...]. 2 volumes. Royal Microscopical Society Collection
[Unknown]
1915
MS RMS 36Gray, Asa
Structural Botany
A manuscript copy, inscribed '... Copied By Abraham Flatters, During the Winter-Evenings of 1885-6. When he was too poor to purchase the book'. Royal Microscopical Society Collection
[1978-760]
1885-1886
MS RMS 37Suffolk, W. T.
On Spectrum Analysis as applied to Microscopical Observation
London: John Browning, 1873. Suffolk's own interleaved copy, with notes and insertions, including 3 letters to Suffolk from William Crookes. Royal Microscopical Society Collection
[1978-431/2]
1873
MS RMS 38Koenike, F.
"Hydrachniden-Fauna von Madagaskar und Nossi-Be"
offprint from Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft, band XXI heft II (Voeltzkow, Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise in Madagaskar und Ost-Afrika 1889-1895) (Frankfurt, 1898), pp. 297-435 and plates. Charles D. Soar's copy, specially bound with extra pages on which are mounted 11 autograph postcards from Koenike (1902-13) and 2 of his visiting cards; also bound with a related work by C. J. Neuman (1880) [see separate entry]. Royal Microscopical Society Collection
[1978-626]
1898
MS RMS 38Neuman, C. J.
Om Sveriges Hydrachnider
Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, bandet 17 no. 3. Stockholm: 1880. Charles D. Soar's copy, bound with a related work by F. Koenike; includes various annotations and additions, especially notes and translations by Soar and by Dr Freeman (1899). Royal Microscopical Society Collection
[1978-626]
1880
MS RMS 40Walker, George
Testacea Minuta Rariora, Nuperrime detecta in Arena Littoris Sandvicensis; a Gul. Boys, Arm. S. A. S. Multa addidit, et omnium Figuras ope Microscopii ampliatas accurate delineavit. Geo. Walker. | A Collection of the Minute and Rare Shells, lately discovered In the Sand of the Sea Shore near Sandwich; By William Boys, Esq; F.S.A. Considerably augmented, and all their Figures accurately drawn, as magnified with the Microscope. By Geo. Walker, Bookseller, at Faversham
London: Printed by J. March; And Sold by B. White, in Fleet Street ...; and at Faversham, by the Author, n.d. [1784]. (With extensive contemporary manuscript additions and annotations by William Boys, and by one or more others). Royal Microscopical Society Collection
[1978-595]
1784?
MS RMS addRoyal Microscopical Society
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Pamphlets in the Library of the Royal Microscopical Society
London: Royal Microscopical Society, 1929. Several copies kept with the RMS manuscripts and archive.
[Unknown]
1929
MS StapletonAzoo, R. F. [Azo]
Annotated Glossary to the Ar-Rawzatu' z-Zakiyyah: The Text-Book for the H.S. Examination in Arabic
Calcutta: Office of the Board of Examiners, 1908. Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
1908
MS Stapleton 114Anonymous
"Ancient Arab Chemistry: The Belief In Transmutation"
extract from Forward (a Calcutta newspaper), February 24, 1929. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1929
MS Stapleton 114Holmyard, E. J.
"Some Chemists of Islam. Wonderful Achievements of the Early Savants"
extract from an unidentified Calcutta newspaper, n.d. [1920s]. Reprinted from Science Progress. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
192-?
MS Stapleton 115Vidyabhusana, S. C. A.
"The Agnostic Philosophy of India"
extract from The Calcutta University Magazine, vol. X no. 5, July 1904, pp. 49-51. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1904
MS Stapleton 13 (1 & 2)Jabir ibn Hayyan
Various titles
Bombay: Edited and published by Mirza Muhammad ash-Shirazi, {...} = 1891 A.D. (Arabic text). Two volumes bound together, containing 11 separate treatises: Kitab al-bayan, Kitab al-hajar, Kitab an-nur, Kitab al-idah, Kitab al-ustuqus (in 3 parts), Tafsir kitab al-ustuqus, Kitab at-tajrid, Kitab ar-rahmat as-saghir, and Kitab al-malik. Together with a manuscript transcription of another version of Kitab al-ustuqus loosely inserted. Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
1891
MS Stapleton 159Thorpe, W. H.
"Orientation and Methods of Communication of the Honey Bee and its Sensitivity to the Polarization of the Light"
extract from Nature, July 2, 1949, pp. 11-14. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1949
MS Stapleton 186Hancar, Franz
"Alaca Hoyuk: Ein Hervorragender Kupferzeitlicher Siedlungs- und Bestattungsplatz unfern von Boghazkoy"
offprint from Wiener Beitrage zur Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Asiens, vol. XII, 1938, pp. 3-36. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1938
MS Stapleton 186Piggott, Stuart
"The Thirteen Tombs of Alaca Huyuk"
cutting from The Listener, November 10, 1955, pp. 790-792. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1955
MS Stapleton 191Bruins, E. M.
"Pythagorean Triads in Babylonian Mathematics"
offprint from The Mathematical Gazette, n.d. [1950s], pp. 25-28. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
195-?
MS Stapleton 191Gillings, R. J.
"The Oriental Influence on Greek Mathematics"
extract from The Mathematical Gazette, vol. XXXIX no. 329, September 1955, pp. 187-190. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1955
MS Stapleton 193Ollerenshaw, Kathleen
"How Not to Teach Mathematics"
extract from The Sunday Times, June 1, 1958. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1958
MS Stapleton 201Moroney, M. J.
Facts from Figures
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957. H. C. V. Philpot's copy, left with other papers in the archive of H. E. Stapleton; Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1957
MS Stapleton 202Bruins, E. M.
Review
of Neugebauer; offprint from Janus, vol. XLVII no. 1, 1958, pp. 68-72. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1958
MS Stapleton 202Bruins, E. M.
"Regular Polygons in Babylonian and Greek Mathematics"
offprint from Janus, vol. XLVIII nos. 1 & 2, 1959, pp. 5-23. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1959
MS Stapleton 202Bruins, E. M.
"A Contribution to the Interpretation of Babylonian Mathematics; Triangles with Regular Sides"
offprint from Proceedings of the Koninkl. Nederl. Akademie van Wetenschappen, series A, vol. LVI no. 5, 1953, pp. 412-422. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1953
MS Stapleton 202Bruins, E. M.
"On Plimpton 322. Pythagorean Numbers in Babylonian Mathematics"
offprint from Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen, vol. LII no. 6, 1949, pp. 191-194. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1949
MS Stapleton 202Bruins, E. M.
"The Geometry of the Plummet"
offprint from Simon Stevin, Wis- und Natuurkundig Tijdschrift, vol. XXXIII no. 1, 1959, pp. 38-60. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1959
MS Stapleton 204Nowotny, Karl Anton
"The Construction of Certain Seals and Characters in the Work of Agrippa of Nettesheim"
offprint from Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. XII, 1949, pp. 46-57. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1949
MS Stapleton 204Nowotny, Karl Anton
"Zur Geschichte der astrologischen Medaillen"
offprint from Numismatischen Zeitschrift, vol. LXXIV, 1951, pp. 100-104. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1951
MS Stapleton 218Anonymous
"The Piltdown 'Lie Detector'"
extract from The Sunday Times, November 29, 1953. (Re. E. T. Hall and the Oxford archaeological laboratory). Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1953
MS Stapleton 220Arts Council
Cave Drawings
London: The Arts Council, 1954. (Exhibition catalogue). Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1954
MS Stapleton 220Coulson, C. A.
The Spirit of Applied Mathematics
Oxford: {...}, 1953. Inaugural Lecture. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1953
MS Stapleton 228Anonymous
The Zuiderzee Works: The work of half a century told in five minutes
The Hague: n.d. [c.1950]. Also map of the Zuiderzee reclamation. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1950?
MS Stapleton 228Rooseboom, Maria
The National Museum of the History of Science ... at Leyden
Reprinted from Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, no. 10, 1950, pp. 129-135. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1950
MS Stapleton 229Anonymous
Istanbul Umumi Kutuphaneleri Yazmalari Sergisi
Istanbul: 1951. Catalogue of exhibition of scientific manuscripts mounted for the XXII International Congress of Orientalists, Istanbul, 1951. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1951
MS Stapleton 229Togan, A. Zeki Velidi
Scientific Collaboration of the Islamic Orient and the Occident
Istanbul: Cituri Biraderler Basimevi, 1951. A lecture delivered in the Faculty of Law on 17th May, 1950 [probably in connection with the XXII International Congress of Orientalists, Istanbul, 1951]. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1951
MS Stapleton 236Asiatic Society of Bengal
Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
N.S. vol. XIII no. 2, 1917. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1917
MS Stapleton 258Anonymous
"The Atom: A Layman's Primer on what the World is Made of"
extract from Life, May 16, 1949, pp. 68-[?85]. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1949
MS Stapleton 258Chackett, G. A.; Chackett, K. F.
"Chemical Form of Phosphorus-32 produced in Aluminium by Bombardment with Nitrogen"
extract from Nature, July 31, 1954, pp. 232-233. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1954
MS Stapleton 258Cherwell, Lord
"Atomic Bombing the Decisive Weapon - and Deterrent"
extract from Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, December 9, [?1951]. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1951?
MS Stapleton 258Cockcroft, Sir John
"Atom-Smashing Up to Date"
extract from a newspaper [?Daily Telegraph], December 5, 1955. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1955
MS Stapleton 258Eisler, Robert
"Stop Borrowing!"
extract from The Listener, February 5, 1948, pp. 229-230. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1948
MS Stapleton 258Emeleus, H. J.
Some Aspects of Nuclear Chemistry
London: 1947. Printed lecture. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1947
MS Stapleton 258Frisch, O. R.
"Artificial Acceleration of Atomic Particles"
extract from Nature, November 17, 1951, pp. 849-851. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1951
MS Stapleton 258McKay, H. A. C.
"Atomic Forces for Industry"
extract from an unidentified periodical, n.d. [after 1945], pp. 51-56. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
[n.d.]
MS Stapleton 258Seligman, Henry
"Production and Uses of Radioisotopes"
extract from Nature, April 4, 1953, pp. 588-590. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1953
MS Stapleton 258Siegel, J. M.
"Nuclei Formed in Fission ..."
offprint from Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. LXVIII, 1946, pp. 2411-2442. Plutonium Project. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1946
MS Stapleton 258Soddy, Frederick
An Independent Scientist's Views on the Economic & Political Possibilities of Atomic Energy for the Future
London: 1947. Lecture printed as pamphlet. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1947
MS Stapleton 258Soddy, Frederick
"Can a Nation be Saved by Budgets and Ever-Increasing Taxation?"
offprint from The Torch of Truth, May 1948, separately paginated. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1948
MS Stapleton 258Spence, R.
"Transmutation of the Elements"
extract from Nature, October 3, 1953, pp. 606-607. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1953
MS Stapleton 258Spence, R.
"Chemistry and Atomic Energy"
offprint from Research, vol. II, 1949, pp. 115-119. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1949
MS Stapleton 259Marett, J. R. de la H.
"The Origin of the Jersey Cow"
offprint from The Island Cow, September 1932, pp. 369-371. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1932
MS Stapleton 260Stapleton, H. E.
"Origin of Short-Horned Cattle"
offprint from Bulletin of the Societe Jersiaise, vol. XVI no. 1, 1953, pp. 100-102 and plate. Abstract of paper given at the Vienna conference, 1952. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1953
MS Stapleton 267Dubs, Homer H.
"The Beginnings of Alchemy"
offprint from Isis, vol. XXXVIII parts 1 & 2 nos. 111 & 112, 1947, pp. 62-86. (Re. Chinese alchemy). Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1947
MS Stapleton 270Blackith, R. E.
"Multivariate Statistical Methods in Human Biology"
offprint from Medical Documentation / Medizinische Dokumentation, vol. V no. 2, 1961, pp. 26-28. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1961
MS Stapleton 270Mahdi Hassan, S.
"Chinese Origin of Indian Terms for Climate and Arabic Word for Magnet"
offprint from Pakistan Journal of Science, vol. VIII no. 3, 1956, pp. 127-133. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1956
MS Stapleton 271Fowden, L.
"The Incorpration of Inorganic Nitrogen Compounds into Amino-Acids and Proteins of Plants"
offprint from The Advancement of Science, no. 60, 1959, pp. 392-396. Offprint is pp. 382-396, and also contains papers by G. Bond and by G. Leaf. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1959
MS Stapleton 278Ray, Prafulla Chandra
"On a New Method of Preparing Mercuric Hyponitrite"
offprint from the Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1897, pp. 1105-1106. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1897
MS Stapleton 278Ray, Prafulla Chandra; Sen, Jatindra Nath
"Decomposition of Mercurous Nitrite by Heat"
offprint from the Transactions of the Chemical Society, vol. 83, 1903, pp. 491-494. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1903
MS Stapleton 278Ruhemann, S.; Cunnington, A. V.
"Formation of Ethereal Salts of Polycarboxylic Acids"
offprint from the Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1898, pp. 1006-1016. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1898
MS Stapleton 278Ruhemann, Siegfried; Beddow, Fred
"Condensation of Phenols with Esters of the Acetylene Series. Part I. Action of Phenols on Ethyl Phenylpropiolate"
offprint from the Transactions of the Chemical Society, vol. 77, 1900, pp. 984-990. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1900
MS Stapleton 278Ruhemann, Siegfried; Cunnington, A. V.
"Condensation of Ethylic Salts of Acids of the Acetylene Series with Ketonic Compounds"
offprint from the Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1899, pp. 778-786. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1899
MS Stapleton 279Ruhemann, S.; Stapleton, H. E.
"On the Synthesis of Benzo-g-Pyrone"
proof of abstract from [proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science], Section B, Bradford, 1900. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1900
MS Stapleton 279Ruhemann, S.; Stapleton, H. E.
"On the Combination of Thiophenol and Guaiacol with the Esters of the Acids of the Acetylene Series"
proof of abstract from [proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science], Section B, Bradford, 1900. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1900
MS Stapleton 279Ruhemann, Siegfried; Stapleton, H. E.
"Tetrazoline"
offprint from the Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1899, pp. 1131-1133. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1899
MS Stapleton 279Ruhemann, Siegfried; Stapleton, H. E.
"The Formation of Heterocyclic Compounds"
offprint from the Transactions of the Chemical Society, vol. LXXVII, 1900, pp. 239-251. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1900
MS Stapleton 280Ruhemann, Siegfried; Stapleton, H. E.
"Condensation of Ethyl Acetylenedicarboxylate with Bases and b-Ketonic Esters"
offprint from the Transactions of the Chemical Society, vol. LXXVII, 1900, pp. 804-810. Multiple copies. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1900
MS Stapleton 280Ruhemann, Siegfried; Stapleton, H. E.
"Tetrazoline. Part II"
offprint from the Transactions of the Chemical Society, vol. LXXXI, 1902, pp. 261-264, Multiple copies. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1902
MS Stapleton 281Indian Science Congress
Proceedings of the First Indian Science Congress (Calcutta, 1914)
Calcutta: Published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1914. (Reprint, 1928). Stapleton Collection
[?1962-64]
1928
MS Stapleton 281Indian Science Congress
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Indian Science Congress. Calcutta, 1928. (Third Circuit)
Calcutta: Published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1928. Stapleton Collection
[?1962-64]
1928
MS Stapleton 296Imprimerie Catholique, Beyrouth
Catalogue General: 1929
Beyrouth (Liban): Imprimerie Catholique, 1929. [Publisher's catalogue of books, in French and Arabic]. ?Stapleton Collection
[?1962-64]
1929
MS Stapleton 296Needham, Joseph
"Science and civilisation in China"
offprint from Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, no. 14, 1951, pp. 281-294. (Projected contents and prospectus of Needham's book; with duplicated typescript additions). Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1951
MS Stapleton 296Osmania Oriental Publications Bureau, Hyderabad
A Complete Catalogue of The Arabic Publications of The Dairatu'l-Ma'arif-il-'Osmania, (Osmania Oriental Publications Bureau) Hyderabad-Deccan 1952
Hyderabad: Dairatu'l-Ma'arif-il-'Osmania (Osmania Oriental Publications Bureau), Osmania University, 1952. (Mostly in Arabic; iv + 37 + ii pages). Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1952
MS Stapleton 297Anonymous
"Jubilee Meeting of the Indian Science Congress"
extract from Nature, January 1, 1938, pp. 1-2. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1938
MS Stapleton 297Arnon, Daniel J.
"Conversion of Light into Chemical Energy in Photosynthesis"
extract from Nature, July 4, 1959, pp. 10-21. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1959
MS Stapleton 297Connolly, Cyril
"The Mysterious Chemistry of Our Minds"
extract from The Sunday Times, June 1, 1958. Review of Robert S. de Ropp, Drugs and the Mind. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1958
MS Stapleton 297Josephson, Mimi
"Dr Glyn Daniel: panellist, archaeologist, novelist"
extract from Yorkshire Post, n.d. [1950s]. Yorkshire Post Personal Studies: no. 133. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
195-?
MS Stapleton 30Baraklus [?Proclus]
Kitab al-iksir fi sana'at al-kimiya'i
Bombay, 1331 A.H. = 1912/13 A.D. (Arabic text). The work ends (pp. 110-112 only) with an ?anonymous item in Persian, Al-wusul ila 'ilm al-iksir. Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
1912?
MS Stapleton 31Husayn ibn 'Ali at-Tughra'i
Mafatih as-san'a wa masabih ar-rahma
Bombay: C. P. Press, 1315 A.H. = 1897/98 A.D. (In Persian). Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
1897?
MS Stapleton 32Hajji Badi' ad-Din Muhammad Kushhali
Ma'alim at-tajarab ... dar san'ati kimiya
Bombay, n.d. [probably 1890s]. (In Persian). Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
189-?
MS Stapleton 33Tanklushah al-Babili
Kunuz-i saba' dar 'ihn-i iksir
Bombay: Mirza Mohamed Shirazi / C. P. Press, 1311 A.H. = 1893/94 A.D. (In Persian). Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
1893?
MS Stapleton 34Jabir ibn Hayyan
Kitab al-muktasab
With commentary by al-Jildaki. Bombay: Mirza Mohamed Shirazi / Chitra Prabha Press, 1307 A.H. = 1889/90 A.D. (In Persian). Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
1889?
MS Stapleton 35Anonymous / Aflatun [Plato]
Musahahat aflatun dar 'ihn asrar huruf wa jefr wa nujum
Bombay: C. P. Press, 1312 A.H. = 1894/95 A.D. (In Arabic and Persian). Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
1894-1895
MS Stapleton 36Anonymous
Ad-durrat al-bayda' fi sana'at al-yaqutat al-hamra' fi-l-iksir
Bombay, n.d. [probably 1890s]. (Arabic text). Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
189-?
MS Stapleton 37Imam Sufyan ath-Thuri
Sharh kitab as-surur fi 'ilm as san'at
Bombay, n.d. [probably 1890s]. (Arabic text). Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
189-?
MS Stapleton 38Abu'l-Qasim al-'Iraqi / Hurmus [Hermes]
'Uyun al-haqa'iq
Cairo, n.d. [probably 1890s]. (Arabic text). Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
189-?
MS Stapleton 39Hurmus [Hermes]
As-saba' kawakib as-sayara
N.p., n.d. [probably 1890s]. (Arabic text). Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
189-?
MS Stapleton 5 (2)Muhammad Zakariyya ar-Razi
Kitab as-Sirr
Bombay: C. P. Press, 1314 A.H. = 1896 A.D. (In Persian). Bound with a manuscript of ar-Razi's Kitab al-Asrar. The printed work also contains a treatise by Husain Akhlati [see separate entry]. Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
1896
MS Stapleton 5 (3)Husain Akhlati
Kitab Matla' an-Nayyirain
Bombay: C. P. Press, 1314 A.H. = 1896 A.D. (In Persian). Follows (pp. 23-48) ar-Razi, Kitab as-Sirr. The printed work is bound with a manuscript of ar-Razi's Kitab al-Asrar. Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
1896
MS Stapleton altKoran
El-Koran; or, The Koran
Translated from the Arabic, The Suras arranged in Chronological Order; With Notes and Index. By J. M. Rodwell. Second Revised and Amended Edition. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1876. Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
1876
MS Stapleton altThatcher, G. W.
Arabic Grammar of the Written Language (Method Gaspey-Otto-Sauer)
London: David Nutt, Dulau & Co., Sampson Low, Marston & Co.; New York: Brentano's and others; etc., 1911. Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
1911
MS Taylor 103Taylor, F. Sherwood
"The Evolution of the Still"
offprint from Annals of Science, vol. V no. 3, July 1945, pp. 185-202.
[1986- ]
1945
MS Taylor 114Broadley, A. M.
"The Romance and Rariora of the Still"
extract from Country Life, November 16, 1912, pp. 669-672
[1986- ]
1912
MS Taylor 114Crombie, A. C.
"The Concept of Nature and the History of Science"
offprint from The Cambridge Review, May 11, 1946. Review of book by Collingwood.
[1986- ]
1946
MS Taylor 12Taylor, F. Sherwood
"The Riddle of Your Sixth Sense"
extract from The Passing Show, January 28, 1939. (On telepathy).
[1986- ]
1939
MS Taylor 12Taylor, F. Sherwood
"Everyday Life, 1911-1937"
extract from The Spectator, April 30, 1937.
[1986- ]
1937
MS Taylor 12Taylor, F. Sherwood
"The Crux of a Murder"
extract from The Spectator, April 9, 1937 (incomplete - 2nd page missing).
[1986- ]
1937
MS Taylor 12Taylor, F. Sherwood
"Flight at High Altitudes"
extract from The Spectator, August 20, 1937.
[1986- ]
1937
MS Taylor 12Taylor, F. Sherwood
"Science and the Forger"
extract from The Spectator, August 6, 1937.
[1986- ]
1937
MS Taylor 12Taylor, F. Sherwood
"An Age of Plastics?"
extract from The Spectator, March 12, 1937.
[1986- ]
1937
MS Taylor 12Taylor, F. Sherwood
"Cancer: A New Approach"
extract from The Spectator, May 19, 1939 (damaged).
[1986- ]
1939
MS Taylor 123Duveen, Denis
'An 18th-Century Alchemical Society'
Duplicated typescript of article copied from The Chemist and Druggist, 1946.
[1986- ]
1946
MS Taylor 136Hartley, Sir Harold
"H. E. Armstrong and the Development of Organic Chemistry"
extract from Chemistry and Industry, December 22 and 29, 1945
[1986- ]
1945
MS Taylor 137Williams, Trevor I.
"The Chemical Society of London"
offprint from Discovery, vol. VIII no. 2, 1947
[1986- ]
1947
MS Taylor 14Society for Freedom in Science
The Objects of the Society for Freedom in Science
Issued by the Committee of the Society for Freedom in Science May 1944
[1986- ]
1944
MS Taylor 157Taylor, F. Sherwood
"Mediaeval Scientific Instruments"
offprint from Discovery, [vol. XI no. 9], 1950. 2 copies.
[1986- ]
1950
MS Taylor 159Taylor, F. Sherwood; Josten, C. H.
"Early Record of Temperature-control in Distillation"
proof of printed letter to Nature, n.d. [c.1950].
[1986- ]
1950?
MS Taylor 17Oesper, Ralph E.
"Frank Sherwood Taylor"
in Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 27 no. 5, May 1950. (Biographical profile, with photograph). 2 copies.
[1986- ]
1950
MS Taylor 19Ray, Cyril
"Adult Under a Cloud at a Children's Lecture | Science Left him in a Fog"
extract from an unknown newspaper, [December 28, 1952]. (Newspaper report of F. Sherwood Taylor's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, 1952-3).
[1986- ]
1952
MS Taylor 193Taylor, F. Sherwood
'Some Metallurgical Processes of the Early Sixteenth Century (1530)'
Duplicated typescript (preprint) of lecture to the Newcomen Society. 2 copies.
[1986- ]
[n.d.]
MS Taylor 202Anonymous [Taylor, F. Sherwood]
"The Letters of Nicolaus Steno"
photocopy from [the Times Literary Supplement, c.1955]. Book review.
[1986- ]
1955?
MS Taylor 208Taylor, F. Sherwood
"The Science Museum: Past and Future"
offprint from Chemistry and Industry, n.d. [1951].
[1986- ]
1951?
MS Taylor 208Taylor, F. Sherwood
"Alchemical Illustrations"
offprint from Nature, 1952.
[1986- ]
1952
MS Taylor 212Eppstein, John
The Christian Tradition in International Relations
Reprinted from The Month, 1944. Newman Association.
[1986- ]
1944
MS Taylor 22Treanor, P. J.
"Dr. Sherwood Taylor"
in The Month, N.S. vol. 15 no. 5 (vol. CCI no. 1065), May 1956. Obituary combined with review of Taylor's book An Illustrated History of Science.
[1986- ]
1956
MS Taylor 233Taylor, F. Sherwood
"Catholics and Public Life: The Need is for More Top Rank Catholic Scientists"
in the Catholic Herald, no. 3308, August 12, 1949. Together with no. 3309, August 19, containing a letter responding to this article.
[1986- ]
1949
MS Taylor 235Taylor, F. Sherwood
"Science After the War"
extract from John O'London's Weekly, 1941.
[1986- ]
1941
MS Taylor 237Boulger, G. S.
Pitfalls in Science & History
Catholic Truth Society, 1931
[1986- ]
1931
MS Taylor 237Taylor, F. Sherwood
"Is Science Compatible with Christian Belief?"
in Theolog, 1947. (Duplicated journal).
[1986- ]
1947
MS Taylor 244Taylor, F. Sherwood
"A Hymne of Paradise"
Galley proof (bound in covers, perhaps as substitute offprints) of article for Clergy Review, n.d. [1940s].
[1986- ]
194-?
MS Taylor 246Taylor, F. Sherwood
"The Confessions of Saint Augustine"
in Westminster Cathedral Chronicle, vol. XXXIX no. 4, April 1945, pp. 68-70.
[1986- ]
1945
MS Taylor 286Ambix
Ambix
Proof pages of complete issue of Ambix, vol. IV nos. 3 & 4, [February] 1951. Part of a small group of F. Sherwood Taylor's papers as editor of Ambix, MSS Taylor 282-287.
[1986- ]
1951
MS Taylor 34Taylor, F. Sherwood
"The Argument of Morien and Merlin: An English Alchemical Poem"
offprint from Chymia, vol. 1, 1948, pp. 23-35.
[1986- ]
1948
MS Taylor 49Fontaney, P. R.
Untitled (?)
B.Litt. thesis on Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, n.d. [c.1952].
[1986- ]
1952?
MS Taylor 51Wheeler, T. S.
"William Higgins, chemist (1763-1825)"
offprint from Endeavour, vol. XI no. 41, January 1952
[1986- ]
1952
MS Taylor 72Stenoniana Catholica
Stenoniana Catholica
Jahrgang 1 no. 1, 1955. Edited by Gustav Scherz. (Inaugural issue of journal devoted to studies of Nicolaus Steno).
[1986- ]
1955
MS Taylor 97Taylor, F. Sherwood
"The Visions of Zosimos"
offprint from Ambix, vol. I no. 1, May 1937, pp. 88-92 and 2 plates. (Translation and prefatory note by F. Sherwood Taylor).
[1986- ]
1937
MS Taylor 98Taylor, F. Sherwood
"A Survey of Greek Alchemy"
offprint from the Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. L, 1930. 3 copies: two mutilated, and one bearing slight annotations.
[1986- ]
1930
MS thesisAsakawa, Tasia
'Electricity and Electrical Instruments in Eighteenth-century England: The Making and Unmaking of a Leading Electrician, Sir William Watson Sr. (1715-1787)'
Thesis (M.Sc.) – University of Oxford, 2004.
[2004-137]
2004
MS thesisAttwood, Thomas Vincent
'Uranium Isotope Separation in the U.K. during World War II'
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Liverpool, 2004. Presented by the author per Professor Robert Fox.
[2004-170]
2004
MS thesisBaker, Alexi
''A New Visible World': Microscopical Correspondence of the Royal Society, 1666-1705'
Thesis (M.Sc.) – University of Oxford, 2004.
[2004-139]
2004
MS thesisBasak, Polly Anna
'Globes and their Makers in Eighteenth Century London'
Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Oxford, 2005.
[2006-42]
2005
MS thesisBellamy, Edward James
'The Longitude Problem in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of William Whiston'
Dissertation submitted to ... Oxford University for the Degree of Master of Science ... , September 1997.
[1997-121/1]
1997
MS thesisBertucci, Paola
''Electricity render'd useful': medical electricity in England in the later eighteenth century'
A dissertation submitted ... for the degree of Master of Science, University of Oxford, 1997.
[1997-121/2]
1997
MS thesisBond, Derek A.
'On the Effects of Instrumentation upon Nineteenth Century Chemistry'
A thesis submitted for Part II of the Final Honour School of Natural Science (Chemistry) in the University of Oxford, June 1978.
[Unknown]
1978
MS thesisBowles, Geoffrey
The Place of Newtonian Explanation in English Popular Thought, 1687-1727
Thesis (D.Phil)--University of Oxford, 1977. Presented by Professor Gerard Turner.
[2005-193]
1977
MS thesisBoxer, Alexander
'How Newtonian were Eighteenth Century Demonstrations of 'Newtonian' Mechanics?'
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. M.Sc. Thesis. 2002.
[2002-96]
2002
MS thesisBredberg, Irene
Aspects of early natural philosophy : presentations of astronomy by Martin, Ferguson and Adams
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, History of Science : Instruments, Museums, Science, Technology. University of Oxford, 2007.
[2007-237]
2007
MS thesisBrookes, Carol
'Experimental Chemistry in Oxford 1648-c.1700: Its Techniques, Theories and Personnel'
Thesis submitted for Chemistry Part II, Final Honour School of Natural Science, in the University of Oxford, 1985.
[Unknown]
1985
MS thesisBrundtland, Terje
'Technical Problems with Early Air-Pumps. Experiments and Apparatus in Pneumatics 1700-1750'
[Thesis] Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science ... History of Science: Instruments, Museums, Science, Technology. University of Oxford. Oxford, September 1998.
[1998-168/1]
1998
MS thesisBruton, Elizabeth Mary
Marconi Wireless Telegraphy in the British Army During World War One
Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Oxford, 2005.
[2006-17]
2005
MS thesisCalder, I. R. F.
'John Dee studied as an English Neoplatonist'
Two volumes: I. Text; II. Notes and Bibliography. Typescript copy of thesis submitted for the Degree of Ph.D. to London University, December 1952. (Includes photocopies of some of Dee's documents). [MS Museum 301].
[1956- ]
1952
MS thesisCampbell, Heather Suzanne
Art of the Astrolabe
Thesis (M.A.) -- American University in Cairo, 2004. Presented by the author.
[2005-141]
2004
MS thesisCarey, Daniel
'Nullius in Verba: Travel Literature and the Royal Society'
[Essay] Submitted for the Jane Willis Kirkaldy Senior Prize. Oxford, n.d. [?1992].
[1998-192]
1992?
MS thesisChakrabarti, Samidh
'Transacting Philosophy: A History of Peer Review in Scientific Journals'
Thesis (M.Sc.) – University of Oxford, 2004.
[2004-141]
2004
MS thesisChapman, Allan
'Dividing the Circle: The Development of Techniques of Precision Angular Measurements in Instrument Making, and their Relationship to the Practice of Astronomy, 1500-1800'
University of Oxford D.Phil. Thesis, 1978. [MS Museum 303]
[1979-109]
1978
MS thesisCrowther, Barbara A.
'A Study of the Phenomenon of the Sundial'
[Thesis for] P/T BA(Hons) Visual Studies ... 3rd April 1998. [No place or university, ?York.] Presented by Christopher St J. H. Daniel.
[Pending]
1998
MS thesisD'Aubyn, Matthew J.
'The History of The Dyson Perrins Laboratory 1955-1978: The Era of Sir Ewart Jones'
[Thesis] Honour School of Natural Science: Chemistry Part II, 2001. [Oxford]. Presented by the author
[2006-94]
2001
MS thesisDavies, Owain
'The Scientific Career of James Smithson'
[Thesis] Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science History of Science: Instruments, Museums, Science, Technology University of Oxford. Oxford, September 1998.
[1998-168/2]
1998
MS thesisDavies, Owain
'The Chrysotype - An investigation into a nineteenth century photographic process'
Thesis submitted for the Honour School of Natural Science: Chemistry Part II, 1997. [Oxford]. Presented by the author
[1997-86]
1997
MS thesisDavies, Owain
'The Chrysotype - An Investigation into a Nineteenth Century Photographic Technique'
Jane Willis Kirkaldy Junior Prize Submission [essay]. Oxford, [1997].
[1998-135/3]
1997
MS thesisDeiman, Johannus Cornelis
Microscope Optics and J. J. Lister's Influence on the Development of the Achromatic Objective, 1750-1850
A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of London and for the Diploma of Membership of the Imperial College. October 1991. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner.
[Pending]
1991
MS thesisDowning, Gillian
Chemical and Bacteriological Analysis of Water Supplies Through the Nineteenth Century
A thesis submitted for Part II of the Final Honour School of Natural Science (Chemistry) in the University of Oxford. June 1980. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner.
[Pending]
1980
MS thesisEdwards, Charlotte Elizabeth
'Michael Butterfield and his Dials'
Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Oxford, 2005.
[2006-3]
2005
MS thesisFreiburger, Dana A.
'18th Century Surveying Instruments of John Thompson'
[Thesis] Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science History of Science: Instruments, Museums, Science, Technology. [Oxford], September 22, 1998.
[1998-168/3]
1998
MS thesisFremontier, Camille
'A Catalogue of Mathematical Instruments Cases and Related Instruments from the Landau Collection in the Louvre'
University of Oxford, Master of Science ... [thesis], September 1997.
[1997-121/3]
1997
MS thesisGerbig, Samantha Scripps Booth van
'The Wonder and Romance of Science: the Popular Science Writing of Charles R. Gibson (1870-1931)'
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. M.Sc. Thesis. 2003.
[2004-4]
2003
MS thesisGlobus, Samuel
'The Polymerase Chain Reaction: Invention and the Birth of Biotechnology'
Thesis (M.Sc.) – University of Oxford, 2004.
[2004-138]
2004
MS thesisHelps, R. L.
'Some Reflections on the Contribution of Islam to European Science'
A General Dissertation submitted to the Department of Education of the University of Exeter. June 12, 1964. Carbon typescript. [MS Museum 302].
[1971-32]
1964
MS thesisHerbst, Klaus-Dieter
'Zur Entwicklung des Meridiankreises 1700-1850 unter Berucksichtigung des Wechselverhaltnisses zwischen Astronomie, Astro-Technik und Technik'
Dissertation (A) zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades doctor rerum naturalium ... vorgelegt der Physikalisch-Astronomischen Fakultat des Wissenschaftlichen Rates der Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena. 1990. (Bound photocopy of typescript). Presented by the author
[1991-68]
1990
MS thesisHigton, Hester Katharine
'Elias Allen and the Role of Instruments in Shaping the Mathematical Culture of Seventeenth-Century England'
Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. [Cambridge, 1996]. Unbound photocopy.
[1996-191]
1996
MS thesisHorsfall, Jane S. M.
'The Importance of Metals in the Development of the Machine Tool Industry 1785-1830'
A thesis submitted for Part II of the Honour School of Natural Science (Metallurgy and Science of Materials), 1978. Department of Metallurgy and Science of Materials, Parks Road, University of Oxford.
[Unknown]
1978
MS thesisHoward, Jennifer
A Victorian Woman's Experiments in Botanical Illustration: A Historical Bibliographical Approach to Anna Atkins' Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of MA in Library & Information Studies, University College London. 2011. Presented by the author.
[Pending-new]
2011
MS thesisHumphries, Ann E.
'A History of the College Laboratories in Oxford'
A thesis submitted for Chemistry Part II of the Final Honour School of Natural Science at Oxford University. Trinity Term, 1970. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner
[1998-87]
1970
MS thesisHutchins, Roger
'Professor John Phillips at Oxford, 1853-74; Catalyst for the University Observatory'
Thesis for the Honours School of Modern History and the Jane Willis Kirkaldy Junior Prize, 1992. [Oxford]. Together with an offprint of his article "John Phillips, 'Geologist-Astronomer' …", 1994. Presented by the author
[1996-52]
1992
MS thesisJenkyn-Jones, Bruce
'Some Chemical Aspects of the Colours and Tones of Nineteenth Century Photographs'
A thesis submitted for Part II of the Honour School of Natural Science (Chemistry). June 1988. Photocopy of typescript.
[1988-131]
1988
MS thesisKassell, Lauren
''The Food of Angels': Simon Forman's Alchemical Medicine'
[Essay] Submitted for the Jane Willis Kirkaldy Senior Prize 1996. [Oxford], 1996.
[1998-135/1]
1996
MS thesisKinsley, Shaw
'Willughby's Fishes: A Publishing Venture of the Early Royal Society'
[Thesis] Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science History of Science: Instruments, Museums, Science, Technology 1999. [Oxford].
[1999-36/2]
1999
MS thesisLalande, Thierry
'The Philosophical Table of King George III: Instruments and Practices of the Diffusion of the New Mechanics'
Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science in History of Science: Instruments, Museums, Science and Technology, University of Oxford. Oxford, September 25, 1998.
[1998-168/4]
1998
MS thesisLancaster, Rebecca
'The Mechanics and the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London'
[Thesis] Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science History of Science Instruments, Museums, Science, Technology. [Oxford], 1998.
[1998-168/5]
1998
MS thesisLarsen, Paul
'Scientific Accounts of a Vanishing Lake: Janez Valvasor, Lake Cerknica and the New Philosophy'
Thesis (M.Sc.) – University of Oxford, 2003. Winner of the Charles Feinstein Prize for the best dissertation of the year (2002-2003) in the M.Sc. in Economic and Social History.
[2004-123]
2003
MS thesisLeaney, Enda
'The Museum of Irish Industry 1845-1867'
[Thesis] Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science History of Science: Instruments, Museums, Science, Technology University of Oxford. Oxford, September 1998.
[1998-168/6]
1998
MS thesisManasek, Francis J.
'Selenography in Victorian England: Amateur Astronomers Map Our Nearest Neighbor'
[Thesis] Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science in History of Science: Instruments, Museums, Science and Technology. University of Oxford. [1999].
[1999-36/1]
1999
MS thesisMathias, Mary C.
'The Historical Epidemiology of Meningococcal Meningitis'
[Essay submitted] for the Jane Willis Kirkaldy Junior Prize 1992. [Oxford], 1992.
[1998-193]
1992
MS thesisMeliconi, Ilaria
'The Spectroscope and the Social Construction of Technology'
A thesis submitted ... for the degree of Master of Science, University of Oxford, 1997.
[1997-121/4]
1997
MS thesisMiller, Nigel Ian
'Chemistry for Gentlemen: Charles Daubeny and the Role of a Chemical Education at Oxford 1800-1867'
[Thesis] Submitted for the Part II Chemistry B.A., June 1986. [Oxford]. Unbound photocopy. Presented by the author and the History Faculty Library
[1986-180]
1986
MS thesisMilne, Denys G. ('Tiny')
'Sir Robert Moray FRS: First President of the Royal Society of London 1660'
[Thesis] Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science History of Science: Instruments, Museums, Science, Technology. [Oxford], 1999.
[1999-36/3]
1999
MS thesisMitton, Lavinia
'Never Despair: Holloway's Remedies and the Patent Medicine Market, 1837-1937'
An essay submitted for the Jane Willis Kirkaldy Senior Prize 1997. Oxford, 1997.
[1998-135/2]
1997
MS thesisMorris, P. J. T.
'The Education of British Chemists in the Eighteenth Century'
Oxford Chemistry Part II Thesis, 1978.
[1980-219]
1978
MS thesisParsons III, Robert Thad
'The Collection and Exhibition of Post-World War Two Science and Technology: the Festival of Britain, 1951'
Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Oxford, 2005.
[2006-41]
2005
MS thesisPerrin, Lynn
Henry Clifton Sorby and the Beginnings of Microscopical Metallography
A thesis submitted for Part II in the Honour School of Natural History, Metallurgy and Science of Materials. Ocford, June 1976. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner.
[Pending]
1976
MS thesisPetrou, Georgia
'Philosophical and Scientific Textbooks in the Greek Speaking Regions from 1750 to 1821: The Example of Two Greek Translations'
Thesis (Ph.D) - Imperial College, London, 2003. Presented by J.R. Millburn, Esq.
[2004-122]
2003
MS thesisRatcliff, Jessica
'Samuel Morland, Inventor: calculation and career in the seventeenth century'
MSc Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in the History of Science, Oxford University, 2001.
[2002-36]
2001
MS thesisRuiz Castell, Pedro
'Astronomy and its Audiences: Robert Ball as a popular author and lecturer'
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. M.Sc. Thesis. [2002].
[2002-97]
2002
MS thesisSafer, Michelle
'The Scientific Iconography of Medals in the Museum of the History of Science's Collection. Prize Medals from London Scientific Societies'
MSc Thesis. Submited in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in the History of Science, Oxford University, 2001.
[2002-37]
2001
MS thesisSanderson, Jeremy Brittain
'A study of two diatom test-objects used to evaluate the performance of the light microscope'
[Thesis] Submitted for the practical requirement of the Royal Microscopical Society's Qualification in the Technology of Microscopy (City & Guilds of London Institute Examination 740 - paper 02). [Oxford], 1990. Presented by the author
[1990-65]
1990
MS thesisSarson, Elizabeth A.
'On Developments of Spectroscopic Apparatus in the Nineteenth Century'
Thesis (B.Sc.)--University of Oxford, 1973.
[2005-80]
1973
MS thesisScheinfeldt, Tom
'Instrumental, Practical and Constructivist Historiography: Some Implications for Museums'
[Thesis] Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science History of Science: Instruments, Museums, Science, Technology. [Oxford], 1999.
[1999-36/4]
1999
MS thesisSharp, Lindsay Gerard
'Sir William Petty and Some Aspects of Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy'
Thesis (D.Phil)--University of Oxford, 1976.
[2005-79]
1976
MS thesisSheppard, Eleanor
'Marketing Mathematics: Georg Hartmann and Albrecht Durer, a Comparison'
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. M.Sc. Thesis. 2003.
[2004-3]
2003
MS thesisSills, Jonathan
'Technology and Culture in Flux: The Case of the Transistor Radio'
[Thesis] Submitted ... for the degree of Master of Science ..., Oxford University, August 19, 1997.
[1997-121/5]
1997
MS thesisSimon, Josep
'Adolphe Ganot (1804-1887) and his Textbooks of Physics'
Thesis (M.Sc.) – University of Oxford, 2004.
[2004-140]
2004
MS thesisSmith, Thomas W. M.
'The Balliol-Trinity College Laboratories'
A Thesis submitted for Part II of the Final Honour School of Natural Science (Chemistry) in the University of Oxford, June 1979.
[1979-322]
1979
MS thesisSnobelen, Stephen David
'Selling Experiment: Public Experimental Lecturing in London, 1705-1728'
Master's Thesis, Department of History, University of Victoria. Submitted April 1995, Reprinted with Supplement August 1995. Presented by the author
[1996-190]
1995
MS thesisTapdrup, Jan
'Textbooks in Transition: Disciplinary and Taxonomic Developments in Examples of Late 18th Century Natural Philosophy'
[Thesis] Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science in History of Science: Instruments, Museums, Science, Technology. Oxford, September 1998.
[1998-168/7]
1998
MS thesisTurner, Jane
'An Examination of the Engraved Lettering on English Mathematical Instruments 1550-1800'
Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of BA in Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, 1982. (Bound photocopy of typescript and plates).
[1983-160]
1982
MS thesisVlaminckx, Bart
'Virtual Observing: The use of graphic material in the early Royal Society'
MSc Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in the History of Science, University of Oxford. 2001
[2002-38]
2001
MS thesisWalters, Alice Nell
'Tools of Enlightenment: The material culture of science in eighteenth-century England'
Dissertation Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in the Graduate Division of the University of California at Berkeley. 1992. Presented by the author
[1992-61]
1992
MS thesis altBerry, David A.
'Collecting at Oxford: A History of the University's Museums, Gardens, and Libraries'
University of Oxford D.Phil. Thesis, 2003.
[2004-56]
2003
MS University Observatory 10Higgs, George
Photographic Atlas of the Normal Solar Spectrum
Small portfolio containing spectrum photographs together with the following printed pamphlets by George Higgs: The Photographic Normal Solar Spectrum … Consecutive Wave-Length Edition (Liverpool, December 1896); A Photographic Atlas of the Normal Solar Spectrum … Descriptive Supplement; "On the Geometrical Construction of the Oxygen Absorption Lines …", offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1893. Together with manuscript notes and calculations. University Observatory Collection; transferred from the Department of Astrophysics.
[1983-49/2]
1896
MS University Observatory 8Pritchard, C.
Astronomical Observations made at the University Observatory Oxford under the direction of C. Pritchard, D.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.R.A.S. Savilian Professor of Astronomy in Oxford: No. II Uranometria Nova Oxoniensis a photometric determination of the magnitudes of all stars visible to the naked eye from the pole to ten degrees south of the equator
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1885. Pritchard's proof copy, corrected and with numerous MS and other insertions, many of them letters to Pritchard relating to the book and to his receipt of a medal, and including both printed and manuscript copies of the sonnet addressed to him by J. J. S[ylvester]. University Observatory Collection
[1968-344]
1885