Papers of Joseph Black and family

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-16
• Dates of Creation:1746-1799
• Name of Creator:
  Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 metre

• Scope and Content

  • 5 boxes of correspondence between himself and a variety of individuals (including James Watt, Prince Paul Dashkov, John Robison) and on a variety of subjects: linen bleaching, use of lime water, assays of ores, civic water supply, mineralogical specimens, absorption of heat etc
  • 1 box of family letters between Black, his father and his brothers Samuel, George and Thomas

• Access Information

  Access should be unrestricted but please check in advance of any consultation.

• Acquisition Information

  Most of the papers were donated to the University by Miss E. L. W. Black in 1967.

• Archivist's Note

  Fonds level description compiled for NAHSTE project by Andrew Thomson , Edinburgh University Library Special Collections Division, March 2000

• Bibliography

  Robinson, Eric and McKie, Douglas, Partners in Science, ( London, Constable & Co Ltd, 1970)

• Subjects

  Anatomy

  Calorimeters

  Calorimetry

  Carbon Dioxide

  Chemistry

  Medicine

  Natural History

  Physiology

  Temperature Measurements

  Thermodynamics

• Personal Names

  Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist)

  Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh)

  Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and mettalurgist)

  Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 (French chemist)

  Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 (professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh)

  Robison, John, 1739-1805 (professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh)

  Watt, James, 1736-1819 (engineer)

  Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766 (professor of theory of medicine, University of Edinburgh)

• Corporate Names

  University of Edinburgh (Scottish University)

  University of Glasgow (Scottish University))