Adhmar de Saint-Venant: Papers on an article by G.G. Stokes
Scope and Contents Correspondence and notes, written in 1862, on G.G. Stokes' article 'On the theories of the internal friction of fluids in motion, and of the equilibrium and motion of elastic solids', read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society on 14 April 1845. The volume contains pages 241-414 of the Society's Transactions, vol. VIII, part III (Cambridge University Press, 1847), of which Stokes' article forms pages 287-319. The letters and notes are inserted into the volume next to the article, sections of...
Edwin Guest (1800-1880): miscellaneous correspondence and papers 1824-1878
Scope and Contents Edwin Guest was born on 10 September 1800, the only son of a successful Birmingham merchant. He entered Gonville and Caius College in 1819, took his BA as eleventh wrangler in 1824, and was elected a fellow the same year. In 1828 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and practised as a barrister for some years before retiring to concentrate on his scholarly interests, particularly English philology and Romano-British history and topography. In 1852, to the surprise of many (including...
Fonds — Box: MS Add.8699: Box 1
Henry Paine Stokes: Papers
Dates: 1885-1926 (Circa)
Latimer Neville: Scrapbook on Cambridge University Elections
Scope and Contents Scrapbook on the elections of University M.P.s, the Chancellor and the High Steward. "Previous proceedings and correspondence are in another book", not preserved with this scrapbook. The volume contains letters, flysheets, pamphlets and additional papers relating to the selection of the Conservative candidate H. Cecil Raikes for the University, 1882 (pp.1-47,186-187); the formation of the Cambridge Conservative Association, 1891 (with letters from G.H. Darwin, G.F. Browne and J.H. Gray)...
Sir George Gabriel Stokes: Miscellaneous Papers
Scope and Contents 1. Correspondence The letters are divided into two main parts. The largest group of correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent, then chronologically within these sections. The remaining letters are arranged chronologically in the following subject groupings: LB1.1 to LB1.22 Letter book containing letters written to Stokes in 1846. LB2.1 to LB2.34 Letter book containing correspondence between Stokes and George Baden Powell in 1847 and 1848. RS1 to RS2415 Royal Society of...
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Names: Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, 1819-1903 (1st Baronet and physicist) X
Optics 1
Scientific innovations 1
Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer) 1
Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 (mathematician) 1
Baden-Powell, Sir George Smyth, 1847-1898 (Knight, author and politician) 1
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930 (1st Earl of Balfour) 1
Cavendish, William, 1808-1891 (7th Duke of Devonshire and University Chancellor) 1
Cobb, Gerard Francis, 1838-1904 (composer and writer) 1
Darwin, Sir George Howard, 1845-1912 (Knight, mathematician and geophysicist) 1
Gorst, Sir John Eldon, 1835-1916 (Knight, barrister and politician) 1
Grey, Thomas de, 1843-1919 (6th Baron Walsingham, politician and entomologist) 1
Guest, Edwin, 1800-1880 (college head, historian, philologist and topographer) 1
Jackson, Henry, 1839-1921 (classicist) 1
Larmor, Sir Joseph, 1857-1942 (Knight, theoretical physicist) 1
Leigh, Augustus Austen, 1840-1905 (college provost) 1
Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner, 1822-1888 (Knight, college head and jurist) 1
Middleton, Richard William Evelyn, 1846-1905 (Conservative Party Chief Agent) 1
Neville, Latimer, 1829-1918 (6th Baron Braybrooke) 1
Sidgwick, Henry, 1838-1900 (philosopher and economist) 1
Stokes, Henry Paine, 1849-1931 (antiquary) 1
Strutt, John William, 1842-1919 (3rd Baron Rayleigh, experimental and mathematical physicist) 1
Taylor, Sedley, 1834-1920 (musical scholar) 1
University of Cambridge 1
Venant, Adhmar Jean Claude Barr de Saint-, 1797-1886 (mathematician and engineer) 1
Victoria, 1819-1901 (Queen of Great Britain and Ireland) 1
Wade, Sir Thomas Francis, 1818-1895 (Knight, diplomat) 1