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Total number of records: 560

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Books and printed items543
Archives17

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Brotherton Collection129
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society31
Herbert Read Collection28
Leeds Russian Archive24
Cookery Collection10
English Literature9
Ripon Cathedral4
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection4
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive3
Quaker Collection2

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science560
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philosophy25
scientists20
astronomy17
physics15
ethics15
technology14
philosophy of nature13
encyclopedias and dictionaries13

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Egypt5
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Russia2
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People and organisationsCount
Royal Society (Great Britain)41
Academie Des Sciences23
Baddam, Benjamin23
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)22
Chambers, Ephraim (1680-1740)15
Martyn, John (1699-1768)15
Vseso︠I︡Uznoe Obshchestvo "Znanie"12
Newton, Isaac, 1642-172712
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)11
Fittler, James (1758-1835)10

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From 160075
From 1700153
From 1800153
From 1900130
From 20008

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Up to 169975
Up to 1799141
Up to 1899161
Up to 1999133
Up to latest9

Archive Sub-collection

Papers of the Association for Science Education and its constituent predecessors

The Association for Science Education

1900-c.1970

Includes minute books, annual reports, membership lists, agenda of annual meetings, miscellaneous papers, and some financial papers.

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Additional papers of the Association for Science Education and its constituent predecessors

The Association for Science Education

c.1915-1975

Comprises: (1) 19 minute books and attendance registers of various regional branches of the Association of Women Science Teachers, the Science Masters Association, and the Association for Science Educ...

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Archive File

Sep, 2002, Berlin

Feb 2001 - Sep 2002

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled Wissenschaft und Verantwortung” (Science and Responsibility) on 6 September 2002 at the "McKinsey Bildet" Congress . (McKinse...

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Archive File

Bound report “Report on Secondary Education in Liverpool”

No date [1904]

Written by Sadler on behalf of the City of Liverpool Education Committee and printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, c1904. Contains a series of illustrative maps and graphs Item 124 in Pickering 229p...

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Archive File

Papers from the 1967 Leeds meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

1967

Comprises the papers given by members of the Association at the 1967 conference covering all branches of science and social science, accompanied by two copies of the programme for the whole conference...

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Archive File

Notebook belonging to Blanche Legat Leigh

c. 1880

Comprises: i) untitled or unattributed music (14 ff.); ii) newspaper cuttings of 'Scientific notes' (11 ff.); iii) verse, further music, and printed cuttings on religious or philosophical subjects (10...

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Proceedings, minutes, accounts, letters etc. of the local committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Leeds Meeting, 1858

1858

Contains: (1) Minute books of Section A (Mathematics), of Sub-section D (Physiology), and of the Foreigners' Reception Committee; (2) Letter book; (3) List of lodgings (2 vols); (4) Subscription books...

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Proceedings, minutes, accounts, letters etc. of the Local Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Leeds Meeting, 1890

1890

Contains: (1) Minute books of the Local Committee, Executive Committee, Finance Sub-committee, Hospitality and Lodgings Committee, Reception and Section Rooms Committee and Evening Entertainments Comm...

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Archive File

Press cuttings

1825-1888

Press cuttings on meterological phenomena, inland navigation and a copy of the Courier with a tax stamp. (Joseph) Alfred Novello was known to have been interested in science and invested in new infras...

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Three laboratory notebooks kept by Frederick Challenger, including some notes in other hands, 1931-1963

Challenger, Frederick (1887-1983)

1931-1963

1. Notes by Challenger, 1931-2. 2. Notes by Patricia Fothergill, n.d.; Challenger, 1961-3. 3. Notes by Margaret Isabel Simpson, n.d.; Challenger, 1957-60.

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Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy : considered in its present state of improvement. Describing in a familiar and easy manner the principal phenomena of nature: and shewing that they all co-operate in displaying the goodness, wisdom, and power of God (v.1)

Adams, George (1750-1795); Jones, William (1763-1831)

1799

Vol. 5 has title: "Plates and index to Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy,..." and includes: "A catalogue of optical, mathematical, and philosophical instruments, made and sold by W. and ...

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Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy : considered in its present state of improvement. Describing in a familiar and easy manner the principal phenomena of nature: and shewing that they all co-operate in displaying the goodness, wisdom, and power of God (v.2)

Adams, George (1750-1795); Jones, William (1763-1831)

1799

Vol. 5 has title: "Plates and index to Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy,..." and includes: "A catalogue of optical, mathematical, and philosophical instruments, made and sold by W. and ...

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