[Collection of offprints presented to or collected by James Veitch, the peasant astronomer]
Brewster, David,1781-1868.Treatise on hydrodynamics.
Brewster, David,1781-1868.Mechanics.
Brewster, David,1781-1868.Curiosities in science.
Wollaston, William Hyde,1766-1828.On a periscopic camera obscura and microscope.
Hall, Basil,1788-1844.Letter from Captain Basil Hall, R.N. to Captain Kater
Robison, John.Notice regarding a time-keeper in the hall of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Rogers, Alexander.On the construction of large achromatic telescopes.
Brewster, David,1781-1868.On periodical colours produced by the grooved surfaces on metallic and transparent bodies.
Somerville, Mary,1780-1872.On the magnetizing power of the more refrangible solar rays
[Edinburgh and London: various,
1812-1831]
This is a collection of nine papers written by six scientists (five of whom were Scots) during the early 19th century. All of the papers were presented to James Veitch (1771-1838), the self-educated polymath who was acquainted with these and other prominent contemporary scientists. Veitch is best known today as the man who inspired the young David Brewster (1781-1868), the inventor of the stereoscope and the kaleidoscope, to take an interest in scientific matters. With Veitch's help, Brewster had made his first telescope by the age of ten. Appropriately enough, four of the nine papers in this volume are by Brewster. There is also the first scientific paper by Jedburgh-born Mary Somerville (1780-1872). She was a leading scientific author and the first woman to have a work published in the Royal Society of London's Philosophical Transactions. The other papers are by Basil Hall, the son of the eminent geologist Sir James Hall, John Robison from Edinburgh and Alexander Rogers, who possibly came from Leith. There is also a paper by the Englishman William Hyde Wollaston, inventor of the camera lucida.
(David Brewster) Treatise on hydrodynamics. Offprint from the Edinburgh encyclopaedia, vol. xi, part 2, pp. 408-568. -- (David Brewster) Mechanics. Offprint from the Edinburgh encyclopaedia, vol. xiii, part 2, pp. 500-624. -- (David Brewster) Curiosities in science. Offprint from the Edinburgh encyclopaedia, vol. xvii, part 2, pp. 557-596. -- W.H. Wollaston. On a periscopic camera obscura and microscope. Offprint from the Philosophical transactions for 1812. -- Basil Hall. Letter from Captain Basil Hall, R.N. to Captain Kater... Offprint from the Philosophical transactions for 1823. -- John Robison. Notice regarding a time-keeper in the hall of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Offprint from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. -- Alexander Rogers. On the construction of large achromatic telescopes. Offprint from the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society of London, vol. iii, pp. 229-33. -- David Brewster. On periodical colours produced by the grooved surfaces on metallic and transparent bodies. Reprint from the Philosophical transactions for 1829, pp. 301-316. -- Mary Somerville. On the magnetizing power of the more refrangible solar rays. Reprint from the Philosophical transactions for 1826.