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Description: | The collection includes material that has been in use in the University of Aberdeen, primarily for the purpose of teaching and research and was brought together by a distinguished line of past Professors of Natural Philosophy. Included amongst these are Patrick Copland, William Knight, James Clerk Maxwell, David Thomson, Charles Niven and Nobel Prize winning GP Thomson. The earliest material dates from the mid 18th century and the most recent material from the 21st century. As a result of its continuity the collection provides an important material record which Aberdeen University Senior Lecturer Dr B Marsden describes as "charting the change in practical and popular scientific culture". One distinctive feature of the Natural Philosophy Collection is the amount of supporting material that accompanies the objects. The collection charts the history and development of the department of Natural Philosophy. Associated material includes descriptions of laboratory experiments and example student books, instrument reference manuals and datasheets, invoices and purchase information, University newsletters of relevance, Minutes, photographs and technical drawings. This supporting material allows the equipment to be seen 'in context' as complete objects. The Natural Philosophy collection is supported by an informative and detailed webpage which includes links to articles related to the collection, information pages for selected items and documentation for an exhibition 'Precisely' which featured the connections between the museum collection of Natural Philosophy and documentation held in the University's Special Libraries and Archives. Access to the collection is restricted and all enquires should be sent to Dr J Reid, the honorary curator. Information compiled in consultation with the Honorary Curator.
Super collection: Natural Philosophy Collection.
Objects: X-ray film envelopes; envelopes with parts; glass spectrum negatives; Senatus minutes; notebook; printer paper; newsletters; poster; screen; accounts; tape punch manual; Order Books; card disks; prisms for printer; Nat. Phil accounts; invoices; paper tape; floppy disks; A1 tape; graph paper; faculty minutes; metal drawer; staff meeting minutes; graph paper; circular slide rule; book Ganots Physics; computer punched cards; weather charts; Rotring pens and mat; thermograph manual; Plant Science slides; Anamorphic drawings; book ' Statistics of Telegraph '; Recorder chart rolls; Analogue computer looseleaf data sheets; meteorology recorder charts; projector accessories; bundle of tephigrams; Analogue computer reference manual; meteorology weather reports; meteorology weather charts; PC manual for ABDNP201456a; Spectrographic material report; Plate camera accessory case; Photo-Cell; Recorder ink; Photo recording paper; Analogue computer brochure; Polaroid camera; 5.25 inch floppy disk; Ensign Film Pack Adaptor; Morganite Carbons; Chart of the Nuclides; Drum recorder charts; Steel-making wall chart; Lecturer's autocue; sliderule book; roll of thermigrams; manuals; Diffraction colour photographs; Magic lantern slides; Book - The slide rule and how to use it. | Subjects: | History of Science | Temporal: | 1800-1990 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDNP:CLD21 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
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