Pièce 48 - Notebook and journal of Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

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Add. MS b/48

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Notebook and journal of Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

Date(s)

  • 1906-1944 (Production)

Niveau de description

Pièce

Étendue matérielle et support

1 volume (26 x 21 cm), containing 156 original leaves and 4 flyleaves (2 at the front and 2 at the back) added when the book was conserved, a printed sheet pasted to f. 55v, and a number of papers (6 single sheets, 2 folded sheets, 1 card, and 1 slip)read more

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Nom du producteur

(1882-1944)

Notice biographique

Arthur Stanley Eddington was born in 1888 into a Quaker family, and remained of that religion all his life. He was educated at Brynmelyn School, Weston-super-Mare, and Owen’s College, Manchester, before coming up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1902.read more

Histoire archivistique

According to the accessions register this book was presented to the Library in December 1958 by E. J. Elliot, and on the front pastedown has been written in pencil, probably at the time it was received, ‘Presented by E. J. Elliott [sic] Esq. Matr. 1902’.read more

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Portée et contenu

The book contains various autobiographical lists and a journal, of varying detail, describing Eddington’s activities in the years from 1905 to 1914. The first inscriptions in it were evidently made in 1905, though it includes some information fromread more

System of arrangement

The original leaves are foliated i, 1–155. The numbering of leaves 1–153 is original.

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