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Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (mathematician and astronomer)

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Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Observata et Dicta ... cum Huygeno Junio 1693, 30 June 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [14]
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Remarks en passant about library volumes in history and physics seen in Leiden. A longer passage follows: notes to a conversation with Christiaan Huygens, critiquing Sir Isaac Newton's notions of absolute motion and the propagation of light. Huygens also says that John Flamsteed ought to declare for the absolute speed of light, and that this should persuade Jean Dominique Cassini.

Dates: 30 June 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Oratio de Quadr: Lunale Hypocratis, 1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [190]
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Graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one Laurence Oliphant. This young man may have been Gregory's future brother-in-law.

The subject is Hyppocrates' lunula. Two documents on the same subject come before this, no doubt as supporting notes. One is the draft of a letter from Gregory to Wallis, referring to a 1687 article by Tchirnhausen in the Leipzig Acta, the other, a transcript of that article.

Dates: 1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

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

Quarto A, c1680-c1708

 Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory in Quarto A consist of: 107 manuscript papers and an index, relating to: theoretical physics, including optics, especially treatises on refraction and colour, on mechanics, specifically on velocity, gravitation, centrifugal and centripetal force, and the movement of solids through fluid, and an occasional thought on magnetic attraction. Applied physics, considering ships,...
Dates: c1680-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

Scheda de Curva Catenaria sive Funicularia, 23 January 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [1]
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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

Summarium nostra Astronomiae Phys: et Geom:, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [56(2)]
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One-page summary of Gregory's major textbook.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

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