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Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 (botanist)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1694 - 1768

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

Letter from James Gregory to John Collins, 7 March 1673

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/6/139-140
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.

Dates: 7 March 1673
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
 File

Pages from Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), vol. 42, no 462 (November 1742), pp.186-192., October 1742-November 1742

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/3/3
Scope and Contents

Contents page, pp.187-192 and one blank folio of a different size. Contains "VI. A Method of making a Gold-colour'd Glazing for Earthen-Ware; communicated in Latin, in a Letter from M. Godfridus Heinsius, Astron. Prof. at St. Petersburgh, to Mr. Peter Collinson, F.R.S. Read Nov. 11. 1742" and "VII. The mean Motion of the Apogee of the Moon, computed from Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, by G.P. Domcke, F.R.S. Read Nov. 11. 1742."

Dates: October 1742-November 1742
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.