[Notes / Charles Ross]

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ross, Charles, 1772-1817.

Contributor:

Breck, Samuel, 1771-1862., Donor.

Ross, Charles, 1772-1817., Former owner.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

History.

Mathematics--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Mathematics.

Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Science.

Dickinson College.

Genre:

School notebooks.

Physical Description:

1 handwritten volume ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

[between 1784 and 1792]

Summary:

Charles Ross's student notes, possibly from Dickinson College, as there are other notes available with the title "Questions and Answers on Logic" and a Prof. McCormick taught math at the time in question. Ross was Breck's brother-in-law.

Contents:

Questions and Answers on Logic

Chronology

Months

Weeks

Days

Hours

Julian Period

Of Historic Chronology

The Earl of Arundel

Memoria Technica of Artificial Memory

Examples of the 12 Caesars

Explanations

The Kings and Queens of England Since ... Conquest

Questions on History

Rhetoric Oratory

Elocution

Questions and Answers on Natural Philosophy

On Mobility

Of Oblique Plains and of Pendulums

Projectiles

Mechanics

Of Hydrostatics

Of Hydraulics

Pneumatics

Of the Atmosphere

Of Evaporation

Questions on Acoustics

Questions on Optics

The Rainbow

Questions on Astronomy

Metaphysics

Pneumatology

Trigonometry / Mr. McCorm

Spherics

Navigation

Algebra

Astronomy

Questions and Answers Arithmetic / James M. McCormick

Mensuration

Guaging.

Notes:

Stamped at top of first page: "C Ross."

Athenaeum copy: Laid in: Ardent in the chase, Princeton alumni weekly, July 7, 1993, concerning Charles Ross.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.

OCLC:

857591252