https://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Charles_Mackie_(1688-1770)&feed=atom&action=historyCharles Mackie (1688-1770) - Revision history2024-03-29T06:57:08ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.2https://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Charles_Mackie_(1688-1770)&diff=6892&oldid=prevPbarnaby: /* Publications and Other Writings */2015-09-14T10:00:39Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Publications and Other Writings</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:IMG 1480.jpg | border | 250 px | right | thumb | Draft letter from Mackie to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 7 December 1753, requesting that [[John Gordon (1715-1775)]] be appointed to share the Chair of Universal History in view of Mackie's continuing ill health ([[Laing Collection]], Edinburgh University Library, La.II.90.2.2)]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Mackie was first and foremost a teacher, and only one printed work has been tentatively attributed to him: ''Antiquitatum romanarum brevis descriptio'' (1759), a set of notes for students of Roman history which resembles a surviving manuscript of Mackie’s antiquities lectures (Edinburgh University Library, MS, La.III.785). </del>Edinburgh University Library’s [[Laing Collection]] includes a collection of lectures and papers by Mackie (La.II.37), perhaps the most complete and typical of which is an address ‘On the Sources of Vulgar Errors in History’ (ff. 92-104). These he listed as: 'fondness for high antiquities', 'fondness for the marvellous', 'travellers' tales', 'prejudice for one's country or religion', 'ignorance, laziness and negligence', 'writing in verse' and lastly 'family annals and funeral orations'. As both a teacher and working historian, Mackie laid the greatest stress on strict impartiality, critical examination of sources, and careful valuation of evidence.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:IMG 1480.jpg | border | 250 px | right | thumb | Draft letter from Mackie to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 7 December 1753, requesting that [[John Gordon (1715-1775)]] be appointed to share the Chair of Universal History in view of Mackie's continuing ill health ([[Laing Collection]], Edinburgh University Library, La.II.90.2.2)]]Edinburgh University Library’s [[Laing Collection]] includes a collection of lectures and papers by Mackie (La.II.37), perhaps the most complete and typical of which is an address ‘On the Sources of Vulgar Errors in History’ (ff. 92-104). These he listed as: 'fondness for high antiquities', 'fondness for the marvellous', 'travellers' tales', 'prejudice for one's country or religion', 'ignorance, laziness and negligence', 'writing in verse' and lastly 'family annals and funeral orations'. As both a teacher and working historian, Mackie laid the greatest stress on strict impartiality, critical examination of sources, and careful valuation of evidence.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Pbarnabyhttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Charles_Mackie_(1688-1770)&diff=3528&oldid=prevPbarnaby: /* Sources */2014-07-18T12:26:05Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Sources</span></span></p>
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</table>Pbarnabyhttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Charles_Mackie_(1688-1770)&diff=3527&oldid=prevPbarnaby: /* Publications and Other Writings */2014-07-18T12:25:48Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Publications and Other Writings</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:IMG 1480.jpg | border | <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">400 </del>px | right | thumb | Draft letter from Mackie to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 7 December 1753, requesting that [[John Gordon (1715-1775)]] be appointed to share the Chair of Universal History in view of Mackie's continuing ill health ([[Laing Collection]], Edinburgh University Library, La.II.90.2.2)]]Mackie was first and foremost a teacher, and only one printed work has been tentatively attributed to him: ''Antiquitatum romanarum brevis descriptio'' (1759), a set of notes for students of Roman history which resembles a surviving manuscript of Mackie’s antiquities lectures (Edinburgh University Library, MS, La.III.785). Edinburgh University Library’s [[Laing Collection]] includes a collection of lectures and papers by Mackie (La.II.37), perhaps the most complete and typical of which is an address ‘On the Sources of Vulgar Errors in History’ (ff. 92-104). These he listed as: 'fondness for high antiquities', 'fondness for the marvellous', 'travellers' tales', 'prejudice for one's country or religion', 'ignorance, laziness and negligence', 'writing in verse' and lastly 'family annals and funeral orations'. As both a teacher and working historian, Mackie laid the greatest stress on strict impartiality, critical examination of sources, and careful valuation of evidence.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:IMG 1480.jpg | border | <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">250 </ins>px | right | thumb | Draft letter from Mackie to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 7 December 1753, requesting that [[John Gordon (1715-1775)]] be appointed to share the Chair of Universal History in view of Mackie's continuing ill health ([[Laing Collection]], Edinburgh University Library, La.II.90.2.2)]]Mackie was first and foremost a teacher, and only one printed work has been tentatively attributed to him: ''Antiquitatum romanarum brevis descriptio'' (1759), a set of notes for students of Roman history which resembles a surviving manuscript of Mackie’s antiquities lectures (Edinburgh University Library, MS, La.III.785). Edinburgh University Library’s [[Laing Collection]] includes a collection of lectures and papers by Mackie (La.II.37), perhaps the most complete and typical of which is an address ‘On the Sources of Vulgar Errors in History’ (ff. 92-104). These he listed as: 'fondness for high antiquities', 'fondness for the marvellous', 'travellers' tales', 'prejudice for one's country or religion', 'ignorance, laziness and negligence', 'writing in verse' and lastly 'family annals and funeral orations'. As both a teacher and working historian, Mackie laid the greatest stress on strict impartiality, critical examination of sources, and careful valuation of evidence.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Pbarnabyhttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Charles_Mackie_(1688-1770)&diff=3526&oldid=prevPbarnaby at 12:25, 18 July 20142014-07-18T12:25:29Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mackie was first and foremost a teacher, and only one printed work has been tentatively attributed to him: ''Antiquitatum romanarum brevis descriptio'' (1759), a set of notes for students of Roman history which resembles a surviving manuscript of Mackie’s antiquities lectures (Edinburgh University Library, MS, La.III.785). Edinburgh University Library’s [[Laing Collection]] includes a collection of lectures and papers by Mackie (La.II.37), perhaps the most complete and typical of which is an address ‘On the Sources of Vulgar Errors in History’ (ff. 92-104). These he listed as: 'fondness for high antiquities', 'fondness for the marvellous', 'travellers' tales', 'prejudice for one's country or religion', 'ignorance, laziness and negligence', 'writing in verse' and lastly 'family annals and funeral orations'. As both a teacher and working historian, Mackie laid the greatest stress on strict impartiality, critical examination of sources, and careful valuation of evidence.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mackie was first and foremost a teacher, and only one printed work has been tentatively attributed to him: ''Antiquitatum romanarum brevis descriptio'' (1759), a set of notes for students of Roman history which resembles a surviving manuscript of Mackie’s antiquities lectures (Edinburgh University Library, MS, La.III.785). Edinburgh University Library’s [[Laing Collection]] includes a collection of lectures and papers by Mackie (La.II.37), perhaps the most complete and typical of which is an address ‘On the Sources of Vulgar Errors in History’ (ff. 92-104). These he listed as: 'fondness for high antiquities', 'fondness for the marvellous', 'travellers' tales', 'prejudice for one's country or religion', 'ignorance, laziness and negligence', 'writing in verse' and lastly 'family annals and funeral orations'. As both a teacher and working historian, Mackie laid the greatest stress on strict impartiality, critical examination of sources, and careful valuation of evidence.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Benefactor to the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Universtiy </del>==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Benefactor to the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">University </ins>==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mackie believed that a well-equipped university library was essential to the study of history. In 1765 he bequeathed to [[Library|Edinburgh University Library]] his private collection of 151 historical works by European writers of the 16th to18th centuries the 18th centuries. This provided William Robertson with a solid base on which to build the Library’s history collections during his term as [[Principal]] of the University.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mackie believed that a well-equipped university library was essential to the study of history. In 1765 he bequeathed to [[Library|Edinburgh University Library]] his private collection of 151 historical works by European writers of the 16th to18th centuries the 18th centuries. This provided William Robertson with a solid base on which to build the Library’s history collections during his term as [[Principal]] of the University.</div></td></tr>
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