All the known thesis lists up to and including 1700, with two exceptions, have been recorded in the revised edition of Aldis.69 The exceptions are: LawJohn, … Theses Philosophicae …, Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1698. (Broadsheet, copy in Glasgow University Library).
2.
CarmichaelGerschom, Theses Philosophicae …, Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1699. 11 pp, 4°. (Copy in National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh).
3.
To complete the count, two individual sets of theses should be added, defended by Tobias Mierbeck (St Andrews, 1600) and Samuel Decanus (King's College, 1643). These were both foreign students who were permitted to follow the custom of their own countries in presenting their theses.
4.
Decermina Quaedam Philosophica, Astron. 2.1.
5.
Theses Aliquot …, Sphaer. 1.
6.
WightmanW. P. D., “Aberdeen University and the Royal Society”, Notes and records of the Royal Society, xi (1955), 145–8.
T.P. 4. These theses were reprinted by Lawson Whalley in The Edinburgh magazine and literary miscellany, xv (1824), 188–90. No original copy has been located.
16.
B/S. Phys. 5, 6. The Copernican theory was not included among the open questions.
17.
T.P. Phys. 13.
18.
Schediasmata Libero-Philosophica, Phys. 5.
19.
CantR. G., “The St Andrews University Theses 1579–1747”, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society transactions, ii (1938–45), 105–50, 263–72, p. 112.
20.
Philosophemata Libera, Math 2.
21.
Systema Copernicanum utpote naturae, ordini & apparentiis satis congruum, contemnendum non est (B/S. Math. 5).
22.
T.P. 19, 23.
23.
He did so in his Optica promota (London, 1663).
24.
T.P. 20, 31–36 etc.
25.
1675: T.P. 33–35; 1679: T.P. 15.
26.
Non desunt quibus Teloscopium est fallax & non prorsus fidum in rebus Coelestibus. Corpora namque magna facit minora, & parva repraesentat majora. Stellae quae videntur fixae per tubum opticum, nudo oculo inconspicuae, stellae novae non sunt, sed tantum imagines Fixarum multiplicatae, & nihil aliud quam lusus Chrystalli (T.P. 1684, 37).
27.
1690: Theoremata & Cogitata Philosophica, IV. 7. 1705: Cogitata Nonnulla Philosophica, 14.
28.
T.P. 11.
29.
1689: T.P. 7; 1693: T.P. 4; 1697: T.P. 10.
30.
T.P. 11.
31.
Placita Nonnulla Philosophica, 8, 9.
32.
FraserGeorge: Positiones Aliquot Philosophicae (1691), 9. FraserAlexander: Determinationes Philosophicae (1693), 19. Their subsequent lists were all titled: Theses Philosophicae.
33.
1691: T.P. 18; 1699: T.P. 6–12.
34.
Positiones Philosophicae, Phys. 6.
35.
B/S. 1, 11.
36.
B/S. 3–23.
37.
T.P. 19.
38.
T.P. 16. Martin, Gregory and Scrymsour were at St Salvator's College, Craigie and Monro at St Leonard's.
All three were titled: Dissertatio Philosophica Inauguralis. The first two were published at Edinburgh, the third at Glasgow.
43.
AldisH. G., A list of books printed in Scotland before 1700 … Printed for the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society MCMIV. Photographically reprinted with additions including books published in 1700 (Edinburgh, 1970).
44.
AndersonP. J., “Collections towards a Bibliography of the Universities of Aberdeen”, Publications of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, viii (1907).
