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Date(s)
- 1897-1982 (Production)
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Étendue matérielle et support
9 boxes
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
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
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
Zone du contenu et de la structure
System of arrangement
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 A record has been kept of this initial numbering, but it has now been superseded.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
This material is open for research unless otherwise stated.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Related units of description
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
Rules and/or conventions used
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.… read more
Dates of creation revision deletion
This catalogue was compiled by A. C. Green in 2007, and revised by him in 2019.