Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS a/612
Title
Noel B. Slater's notes on and transcripts of Sir Arthur Eddington's unpublished notes on Fundamental Theory
Date(s)
- 1949-1954 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
4 vols.
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Dr A. V. Douglas, 1982.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Assembled in preparation of his book The Development and Meaning of Eddington's 'Fundamental Theory' (Cambridge University Press, 1957).
Three notebooks with paper wrappers, one bound with pasteboard covers. Three notebooks marked Collation 1-3 contain section headings of the MSS followed by summarised text of Chapters I-XI, dated Dec. 1849 - Sept. 1950. Further notes and collations at the end of the third notebook are dated to Sept. 1954. A fourth notebook contains the chronology and summaries and is dated July 1950.