MS letter, with transcript. On Anderson's hopes of the Chair of Latin or Hebrew at Glasgow College - he felt that he was "jockied out" and was instead elected Professor of Oriental Languages - his visit to France and the Catholic converts he has met there.
Draft of protest by John Anderson, Joseph Black and Thomas Hamilton over the payment of 50 merks to Robert Dick, former Professor of Natural Philosophy, and James Mair from the crop of 1754.
On the verso is a draft class ticket by John Anderson to James Caldwell for the latter's work in the Hebrew class.
The merk was a unit of Scots currency.
'A South West Prospect of St. Dunstan's Church at Stepney humbly inscrib'd to the Gentlemen of the Vestry. in 1755'
'B. Cole sculp.'
Refers to the purchase, repair and carriage of Natural Philosophy instruments at Glasgow College, 1753-1755.
One view and one map of Calcutta, mounted on one sheet.
'T. Kitchen Sculpsit'
- 'Calcutta as in MDCCLVI'; 71.7 x 20.4 cm on 74.1 x 23.8 cm sheet
- 'Territory of Calcutta MDCCLVII'; 40.5 x 23.1 cm on 41.4 x 21.4 cm sheet; scale: 3 2/5 inches to 1 mile
'Plan for the intelligence of the Military Operations at Calcutta when attacked and taken by Seerajah Dowlet in 1756.'
Anon.
These were probably calculations for experiments in Anderson's first course of lectures in natural philosophy.
Notes of a course of lectures on natural philosophy, bound with 'A compend of experimental philosophy, for the use of the private students of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow.'
First title in manuscript, c 1757-1758, second title printed, 1760. MS note inside volume states that this was probably Anderson's first course of lectures as Professor of Natural Philosophy.
'Tabula nova Imperii Turcarum, Arabum et Persarum'
'Carte de la Turquie de l'Arabie et de la Perse. Dressée Sur les Memoires les plus recens rectifiez par les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Roy[a]le des Sciences'
'Par G. de L'Isle Geographe'
'A Amsterdam Chez lean Covens et Corneille Mortier Geographes Avec Privil[eges]'
Scale: 1 cm to 60 miles
[Cities Exhibition].
[Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier, Atlas Noveau de l'Isle [...] (Amsterdam: Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier (after 1757) (Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici. Bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial Atlases and Pilot Books published in the Netherlands up to 1880 (Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1969-1971) 2, p. 55, C&M8)]
MS copy made by John Anderson, Glasgow College, 1 October 1760, of a catalogue of curisosities, 1703. Prefaced 'Copy of a small tattered book lent to me by the Reverend Mr. Peter Woodrow, Minister at Turbowtoun [ie Tarbolton], which he says is a catalogue of the curiosities collected by his father the Minister of Eastwood'. Lists natural history objects, fossils and antiquities.
Sin títuloLists room preparation and apparatus required for experiments in somatiology, electricity, magnetism, gravitation, mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics and astronomy. The same notebook has been used to record notes on astronomy.
'Piranesi F.'
'17' endorsed in bottom right corner.
From Opere varie di Architettura (1750 and later), this plate appeared only in editions after 1760 (Wilton-Ely, John, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, cat no.46)
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