Joseph Black

(1728-1799)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 NRA: Black, Joseph (1728-1799), chemist DNB: Black, Joseph (1728-1799), chemist and physician LBT ID: JoBlack1799 VIAF ID: 61680535 LOC ID: n50008556	B/BAP: 1727-04-16 DIED: 1799-12-06
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Scottish chemist; he was professor of medicine at Glasgow (1756-66) and professor of medicine and chemistry at Edinburgh (1766-97).
REFERENCES TO Joseph Black: Walter Scott to William Clerk, 23 August 1795 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XIV. 1819 Found 1: ¶ 11 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 15 Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter IX 1831 Found 1: ¶ 8 Lord Brougham to Samuel Rogers, [1850] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1847-50.