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List of 17 titles (partial cites only) in Latin and French, in an unnamed repository, concerning history, classical literature, and philosophical commentary, such as the "Dictionaire Critique de M. Bail".

Scope and Contents List of partial titles in applied mathematics, mostly, in a hand other than David Gregory's-and one of them in Greek, not a language in which he was comfortable. 1693 was the year he made his last trip to the continent, visiting Flanders as new Savilian Professor. These varied titles consider things like the statics of exploding gunpowder and draining water, dioptrics, micromeasurement, catapults, and astrophysics. This bibliography may be part of a larger one, judging by "par le meme" in...

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Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from an unidentified correspondent thanking him for letters and articles that he has sent. He mentions the geological survey of Russia, and all the problems this entails. In many areas of Russia it is suspected the geological research will be in a similar vein as in Canada and the American prairies. He goes on to describe a further scientific project to examine the geology and geomorphology of the Aral Sea and Caspian Sea areas.

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Exposition, by Leiden mathematician Burchard de Volder (possibly in his hand), of René-François de Sluse's method of tangents.