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Jo: Keil Scheda de figura Radij in Medio difformi, 1684-1700

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [30]

Scope and Contents A logarithmic treatment of light propagating through a uniform medium. John Keill was an Edinburgh native who earned distinction under David Gregory in mathematics and natural philosophy there, and who followed him to Oxford in 1691, where, like Gregory, he made a name for himself as an enthusiastic vindicator of Sir Isaac Newton. At Balliol College he demonstrated by experiments the validity of some of the chief propositions of Newton concerning light and colour, among other things. Oddly,...

Dates: 1684-1700

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Mr Whistons mistakes in his new theory, 3 April 1698

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [45]

Scope and Contents A short critique of William Whiston's A New Theory of the Earth, from its Original to the Consummation of all Things, (1696) , intended to damn Cartesian astronomy and advance corollaries to Newtonian thought instead. He affirmed the truth of the flood narrative in Genesis, ascribing the deluge to the impact of a comet. Whiston had been converted to Newtonianism by a paper of David Gregory. At the foot of this document is an unrelated note, dated 6 Sept. 1708, to...

Dates: 3 April 1698

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Notanda D.J. phys. et math. Lond: Martio 1693 cum Fatio, 31 March 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [37]

Scope and Contents Notes to an extended conversation with Fatio de Duillier, fellow enthusiast of Newtonian science at Oxford, and especially important to Gregory between December 1691 and May 1694, when he was cut off from direct contact with Sir Isaac Newton, whom he had offended in a published commentary on his 'abrumpent' mathematical series. Topics include magnetic attraction, refraction and colour, and movement of solids through fluid, with anecdotal remarks by de Duiller about ships, tides, and the...

Dates: 31 March 1693

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Papers of David Gregory

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Identifier: Coll-33

Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: bound manuscripts of mathematical and personal papers by both David Gregory and James Gregory bound manuscripts Lectiones Mechanicae Sive Geometria de Motu parts 1-4 (1689-1690) bound manuscripts of treatises on mathematics and astronomy (1683-1694) bound manuscripts ...

Dates: 1652-1706

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Achromatic Telescope 1

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Comets 1

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Flood, Biblical 1

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