Fondo EDDN - Papers of Sir Arthur Eddington

Área de identidad

Código de referencia

EDDN

Título

Papers of Sir Arthur Eddington

Fecha(s)

  • 1897-1982 (Creación)

Nivel de descripción

Fondo

Volumen y soporte

9 boxes

Área de contexto

Nombre del productor

(1882-1944)

Historia biográfica

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

Institución archivística

Historia archivística

The immediate provenance of these papers is unknown, and there is no formal documentation of their deposit. Two notes made in 1982 by David W. Dewhirst of the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy indicate that some or all of the manuscripts relating to read more

Área de contenido y estructura

Sistema de arreglo

On their arrival in the Library the papers were put into five archival boxes and numbered in the order in which they lay. A record has been kept of this initial numbering, but it has now been superseded.

Área de condiciones de acceso y uso

Condiciones de acceso

This material is open for research unless otherwise stated.

Área de materiales relacionados

Unidades de descripción relacionadas

Related papers elsewhere in Trinity College Library are listed in the card index of Modern Manuscripts. The most significant are Eddington’s Notebook, 1905-39 (Add. MS b. 48), the autograph manuscript of The Nature of the Physical World, 1928 (O.11.25),read more

Reglas y/o convenciones usadas

The following abbreviations have been used:
Douglas: A. Vibert Douglas, Arthur Stanley Eddington (1954)
MNRAS
: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ODNB
: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Notebook: Eddington’s Notebook (Add. Ms. b. 48)
Phil.
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Fechas de creación revisión eliminación

This catalogue was compiled by A. C. Green in 2007, and revised by him in 2019.