Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow

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1. Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741. 353 borrowings
2. Clarke, Samuel, 1675-1729. 174 borrowings
3. Hutcheson, Francis, 1694-1746. 171 borrowings
4. Rapin-Thoyras, Paul de, 1661-1725. 168 borrowings
5. Homer. 153 borrowings
6. Universal History. 149 borrowings
7. Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754. 147 borrowings
8. Xenophon. 136 borrowings
9. Hume, David, 1711-1776. 133 borrowings
10. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. 123 borrowings
11. Leland, John, 1691-1766. 108 borrowings
12. Livy. 96 borrowings
13. Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. 95 borrowings
14. Monthly Review. 91 borrowings
15. MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746. 87 borrowings
16. Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771. 85 borrowings
17. Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756. 76 borrowings
18. Terence. 74 borrowings
19. Weston, James. 71 borrowings
20. Robertson, William, 1721-1793. 69 borrowings
21. Locke, John, 1632-1704. 69 borrowings
22. Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727. 69 borrowings
23. Hederich, Benjamin, 1675-1748. 67 borrowings
24. Massillon, Jean Baptiste, 1663-1742. 63 borrowings
25. Philosophical Society of Edinburgh. 62 borrowings
26. Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 59 borrowings
27. Horace. 58 borrowings
28. Harris, John, 1677?-1719. 56 borrowings
29. Prideaux, Humphrey, 1648-1724. 55 borrowings
30. Derham, William, 1657-1735. 54 borrowings
31. Euclid. 54 borrowings
32. Virgil. 53 borrowings
33. Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. 50 borrowings
34. Lucretius Carus, Titus. 48 borrowings
35. Herodotus. 47 borrowings
36. Angell, John, -1764. 46 borrowings
37. Hooke, Nathaniel. 43 borrowings
38. Thomson, James, 1700-1748. 43 borrowings
39. Tacitus, Cornelius. 43 borrowings
40. Anacreon. 41 borrowings
41. Modern Universal History. 41 borrowings
42. Crouch, Nathaniel, 1632?-1725?. 41 borrowings
43. Royal Society of London. 40 borrowings
44. Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. 40 borrowings
45. Jones, D. (David), active 1676-1720. 39 borrowings
46. Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678. 39 borrowings
47. Gibbs, Philip, active 1736. 38 borrowings
48. Various. 35 borrowings
49. Rutherforth, T. (Thomas), 1712-1771. 35 borrowings
50. Ainsworth, Robert, 1660-1743. 35 borrowings