Chemistry lectures, attributed to Joseph Black
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Chemistry lectures, attributed to Joseph Black
Classmark: MS 2032/4
Original reference: MS 535
Creator(s): Tatham, James (fl1822)
Date(s): c.1770-c.1800
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 volume
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5233
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Manuscript volume of sixty-two lectures, attributed to the chemist and physician Joseph Black (1728-1799), and transcribed by James Tatham (fl.1760-fl.1822), a Leeds surgeon-apothecary.
Tatham's signature is on p.i. Stamp of the University of Leeds Medical Library inside the front cover. Original pagination, pp.1-716; p.162 has been omitted but there is no hiatus in the text. The lectures have been numbered throughout, and there is an index to the volume on pp.710-712, listing each lecture title and page number.
The topics of the lectures includes: the general nature of chemistry; history and definitions of chemistry; the general effects of heat; thermometric scales; thermometers; latent heat; evaporation; effects of and making of mixtures; vessels and instruments; elements; acids and alkalis; salts; and other topics.
The modern spine-label erroneously states 'Latham - Chemistry lectures'.
Biography or history
Joseph Black (1728-1799) was a chemist and physician from Bordeaux, France. He is well-known for his research on magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide. He studied medicine under William Cullen (1710-1790) at the University of Glasgow, then transferred to Edinburgh University in 1752 where he received his degree. He became Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh in 1766, succeeding from William Cullen.
Source:
R. G. W. Anderson, ‘Black, Joseph (1728–1799)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2495, accessed 17 Feb 2017]
James Tatham (fl.1760-fl.1822), was a surgeon-apothecary who practised in Leeds, and later in Rawden.
Provenance
Presented to the Leeds School of Medicine by Edward Thompson, 6 December 1880.Transferred to Special Collections in 1981. Previously catalogued under an artificial collection, SC MS Case notes.
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