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- MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D11
- Item
- [ca. 1792]
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
Item is volume 13 of James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," containing queries numbered 2082-2172 and headings including mathematics, engineering and mechanics.
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Two letters to James Dinwiddie from the Royal Institution
- Dinwiddie, Box 4, Folder A87
- File
- January 1, 1811 ; May 31, 1811
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
INDICES:::Royal Institution ; 1811 ; meeting ; Mathematics ; Mechanics ; Mechanical Inventions ; Guillemard ; Scientific and Literary Committee ; Auriol
Two letters to James Dinwiddie from A Mercer
- Dinwiddie, Box 3, Folder A74
- File
- November 2, 1781 - February 19, 1783
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
INDICES:::A Mercer ; 1781 ; 1783 ; credit ; Mathamatics ; symptom
- Dinwiddie, Box 11, Folder C27
- File
- [ca. 1793]
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
These lecture notes written by James Dinwiddie ca. 1793 focus on trigonometry. The notes begin with a series of definitions of angles, circles, and trigonometric measurements. They go on to mention various corollaries and theorems related to trigonometry.
Ticket to a mathematics class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia
- MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 5
- Item
- 1861
Part of James Baxter fonds
Item is a ticket for a mathematics class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, during the 1860-1861 session. The ticket certifies that James Baxter attended the class and is signed by Thomas McCulloch.
Photograph of Pat Stewart, Carolyn Waterson, and Bernice Moreau
- PC1, Box 19, Folder 16, Item 1
- Item
- January 1983
Item is a photograph of Pat Stewart, a math teacher for the Transition Year Program at Dalhousie University; Carolyn Waterson, the director of the program; and Bernice Moreau, a student in the program. Stewart is using a computer while Waterson and Moreau watch.
One letter to James Dinwiddie from Lt. Gen. Helvill
- Dinwiddie, Box 3, Folder A53
- File
- July 11, 1790
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
INDICES:::Helvill ; Planta ; mathematician ; mechanitian ; Greek ; Roman ; antiquities ; museum ; Channel ; Lt. Gen Helvill ; 1790
One letter to James Dinwiddie from John McGeorge
- Dinwiddie, Box 3, Folder A69
- File
- January 01, 1783
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
INDICES:::Dublin ; Bell ; Mathematics ; Brown ; John McGeorge ; 1783
One letter to James Dinwiddie from James White
- Dinwiddie, Box 4, Folder A108
- File
- March 02, 1783
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
INDICES:::White ; 1783 ; Henderson ; Arithmetics
One letter to James Dinwiddie from James Faulkner
- Dinwiddie, Box 3, Folder A40
- File
- November 19, [18--?]
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
INDICES:::Simpson ; Elements ; Glasgow ; Mathematics ; England ; Mancester Academy ; James Faulkner
Notes regarding celestial navigation
- MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder D36
- Item
- [after 1780]
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie in which he wrote his observations and calculations about celestial navigation.
- Dinwiddie, Box 11, Folder C25
- File
- [ca. 1793]
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
These lecture notes written by James Dinwiddie ca. 1793 focus on various mathematical topics including geometry, trigonometry, and logarithmic scales.
- MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder E20
- Item
- [1800?]
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
Item is a notebook containing notes about logarithms, addition and subtraction, and example calculations.
- Dinwiddie, Box 11, Folder C14
- File
- [1792?]
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
This series of lecture notes by James Dinwiddie in 1792 (?) references several subjects including mathematics, natural philosophy, Plato, Epicurius, the motion of the Earth, David Hume, and "W. Harrington". The file consists of 29 pages of lecture notes.
Deduction of the Distance by Mitchell Method
- Dinwiddie, Box 11, Folder C34
- File
- [ca. 1793]
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
These notes written by James Dinwiddie ca. 1793 contain a series of calculations of distance using the Mitchell Method.
- Dinwiddie, Box 12, Folder C66
- File
- after 1792
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
This series of notes written by James Dinwiddie focuses on astronomy. Dinwiddie discusses the properties of the moon and outlines the lunar cycle as well as the phenomenon of comets. He provides a list of well known astronomers and their publications including Isaac Newton, Rene Descartes, Johannes Kepler, Socrates, Nicolas Copernicus, Otto Guernicke, Galileo, Ptolemy, and Edmond Halley.
A letter from Charles Elliot to James Dinwiddie
- Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 16
- File
- July 15, 1772
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
INDICES:::Elliot ; Ferguson ; lectures ; navigation ; Trigonometry ; Astronomy
30 letter to James Dinwiddie from Joseph Hume
- Dinwiddie, Box 3, Folder A59
- File
- May 27, 1796 - Feb 7, 1815 ; N/D
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
INDICES:::George ; nephew ; decimals ; Phosphoric Tinder ; Proudfoot ; Howard ; Singer's ; Jardine ; Heales ; Scotland ; Bill ; Bailey ; Sanders ; lawsuit ; Grenada ; Fay ; William ; Royal Institution ; arithmatic ; Penny ; lottery ; pistols ; oxygenated ; arsenic ; silver ; muriatic acid ; sulpheric acid ; medical ; practitioners ; formula ; experiment ; Brown ; marriage ; Dumphries ; Barclay ; Navy Pay office ; Reid ; Europe ; Corsica ; soldier ; laboratory ; cylinders ; spatulas ; hermetically ; tubes ; Galvanism ; Cruikshanks ; nitrous ; acid ; copper ; Glasgow ; Wilson ; oil of viterol ; architecture ; vegitable ; animal ; mineral ; gravity ; hydrometer ; Encyclopedia Britanica ; metals ; Chapman ; Spanish ; Hawkesbury ; Manganese ; gold ; silver ; diamonds ; Cardiff ; Dudly Adams ; Price ; Portsmouth ; Wilson ; steam engine ; charcoal ; clay ; alkali ; Zinc ; Colbalt ; Sulpher ; Nitrate ; Tartar ; Borax ; Litmas ; Vitriol ; wedgewood ; Phials ; Leigh ; Sotheby ; Fleet Street ; Joseph Hume ; 1796 ; 1815