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Philosophy

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:

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Samuel Butler: Unconscious Memory

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5977
Scope and Contents

Draft of Samuel Butler's Unconscious Memory, 397 folios.

Dates: 1880
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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School Classics Notebook

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5979
Scope and Contents A classics notebook compiled apparently by Richard Williamson, 231 folios. There are loose sheets in the volume from a printed work, one of which has the manuscript note 'Mr. E.R. Williamson. To the care of Revd. D. Williamson Deans Yard Westminster'. According to a list of contents and subject index on folios ii-iv, the book is divided into three sections, 'geography and places', 'philosophy and persons' and 'antiquities and things', which, however, are intermingled in the text. On fos...
Dates: 1811-1840
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Taoism correspondence, 1954-12-13 - 1989

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/42
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1954-12-13 - 1989
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'The Nature of Explanation' and Philosophical Writings , 1938 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/KJCraik/3
Scope and Contents

Series contains notes and writings for 'The Nature of Explaination' as well as further philosophical work and observations

Dates: 1938 - 1945
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'The Nature of Explanation' - T/S drafts and notes for book, 1938 - 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/KJCraik/3/1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series contains notes and writings for 'The Nature of Explaination' as well as further philosophical work and observations

Dates: 1938 - 1944
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The Papers of Gabriele Rabel

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RABL
Scope and Contents Throughout her life, Dr. Gabriele Rabel kept diaries in which she described in great detail her work in biology, theoretical physics, philosophy and philology, her life in Germany and Austria from the end of the 19th century until the late 1920s, and in the United States at the end of the 1920s and some of the famous scientists and philosophers with whom she worked and under whom she studied. At the age of 80, settled near Cambridge, she resolved to translate passages from these diaries...
Dates: 1893 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Treatise on philosophy, seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.06.04
Scope and Contents

From the preface it appears that the text comprehends only the first part of the author's plan, namely, logic and moral philosophy.

Dates: seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Treatises of Cornelius Lery on Aristotle, c 1630

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.04.32
Scope and Contents

‘Corn. Lery quæstiones in Aristotelis Logicam et Ethicam’ (title written inside the cover in a later hand), beginning ‘Introductio ad logicam Aristotelis. Prœmium. Dignitas logicæ. Qui philosophica spatia ingreditur ...’. Two treatises bound together, but separately paged. Between ff. 12 and 13 is inserted a printed table of ‘Clara modorum imperfectionum trium figurarum reductio ad quatuor primæ perfectos’, Rhedonis, 1630. See MS Ii.04.07.

Dates: c 1630
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Variæ Philosophiæ conjectanea de anima mundi per mundum magnum et microcosmum, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.05.38
Scope and Contents

This is apparently a thesis, a portion of a larger MS.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Various treatises on subjects connected with alchemy and the philosopher's stone, Fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.45
Scope and Contents (1) ‘Arnaldus de Nova Villa’, beginning ‘[M]ateria lapidis est res vilis pretii ubicunque reperitur que est aqua viscosa ...’; (2) ‘Declaratio lapidis philosophorum per Avicennam filio suo’, with a colophon supplying ‘Explicit archanum Avicenne de philosophorum lapide’; (3) anonymous text beginning ‘Hic incipit tractatus optimus in quo exponit et apte declarat Plinius philosophus quis sit lapis philosophicus’; (4) text ‘Per Albertum’, beginning ‘Aqua mercurius et oleum sulphuris’; (5) a...
Dates: Fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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