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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:

Ratio et Demonstratio Methodi Joannis Craige, 1686

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [200]
Scope and Contents

Craige's suggestion for handling a finite quadrature. Attached is a slip on binomial reduction.

Dates: 1686
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Refer: ad Geom: Cartesianam, 1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [148]
Scope and Contents

Thoughts on Descartes, written up in Rotterdam.

Dates: 1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Scheda de Curva Catenaria sive Funicularia, 23 January 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [1]
Scope and Contents

Draft of a paper on the catenary curve which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for the month of August 1697. Applies Newtonian fluxions to a disputed concept of Jean Bernoulli's. Loose addendum 11a is the opening paragraph; leaf 11b is the calculations pertaining to Proposition 2, with Corollaries 5 and 6 on the reverse.

Dates: 23 January 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Slusi solutio Probl: quorundam in Lect: Barrowi ..., c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [23]
Scope and Contents

De Sluse's commentary on Barrow, copied out of a letter of 25 July 1670.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Slusius de equationum limitibus, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [25]
Scope and Contents

Sluse on the limits of functions, penned in March of 1670.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Slusius de figuris cycloidicis, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [26]
Scope and Contents

Sluse on cycloids.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Slusius de Probl: Alhazeni, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [27]
Scope and Contents

Sluse, writing in 1672, on the work of 'Alhazen'.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Slusius de sectionum focis et Constructione Equationum per Curvas, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [121]
Scope and Contents

Notes on Sluse, and also Tchirnhausen, on graphing curved functions.

Dates: s.d.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Solutio Probl: Astri Mercatoris, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [107]
Scope and Contents

A jotting on Mercator.

Dates: s.d.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Student manuscript copy of Colin MacLaurin's Treatise of Algebra

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1812
Content Description These are manuscript lecture notes on algebra... notes of 'A Treatise of Algebra' by Colin MacLaurin. Although the writer is unknown (a student?), the ms volume bears a label... an armorial Melville bookplate... possibly that of Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville.The volume is noted...: 'A Treatise of Algebra by Mr McLaurin Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh. part 1. 1735'.The last five pages are 'Concerning the Art of Measuring Land'....
Dates: 1735
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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