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Title: Introduction to natural philosophy: Institutes of moral philosophy. [Vol. 2]
Alternative Title: Natural philosophy.
Moral philosophy.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1791-1793
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. Title from head of text (v. 1) and title page (v. 2). Flyleaf and first page excised from v. 1; first 2 pages excised from v. 2.
Scope/Content: Fair copies of notes taken in from lectures on the topics of natural philosophy and moral philosophy, probably at King's College, Aberdeen, during the period 1791-1793. Topics discuss the history of both disciplines and the achievements of historical and contemporary philosophers and physicists, such as Newton, Hutcheson, Smith and Reid. It is probable that James Dunbar was the lecturer speaking on "Institutes of moral philosophy, " especially because the lecturer repeatedly refers students to Dunbar's "Essays on the history of mankind." Dunbar taught at Aberdeen until his April 1794 retirement the year after these lectures were given. It is unlikely that Dunbar was also the lecturer on natural philosophy, but it is unclear to which of his colleagues this lecture can be attributed.
Condition: Contemporary half calf, rubbed, spines with raised bands and red morocco labels and marbled boards.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Lecture notes
Extent: 2 v. (280, 173 p.) ;16 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1vp6n
MS.2007.003, vol. 2
Language: English
eng
Subject: Physics--18th century.
Philosophy, Scottish--18th century.
Physics--Study and teaching--18th century.
Philosophy--Study and teaching--18th century.
Ethics--Study and teaching--18th century.
Dunbar, James, ---1798.
Place: Scotland--Aberdeen
Provenance: First volume inscribed by I. Davidson; "King's College" in different hand on paste-down endpaper.
Location: CLUW

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