Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

A Prognostication concerning the Frost by Monsieur Cassini the French King's Astrologer, 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [30]

Scope and Contents

A scurrilous pamphlet probably directed, according to Gregory's marginalia, at Flamsteed, by one "Charles Bernard Chirurgein".

Dates: 1697

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio B

Flamsteed's Tide Table, 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [129]

Scope and Contents

A printed tide table for London in 1693.

Dates: 1693

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

Folio C, c1680-c1708

 Series — Volume Dc.1.61: Series Coll-33/Folio C

Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C

Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: These are mostly handwritten items, bound together as a volume, though with some loose insertions of manuscripts which had strayed, some of them with modern annotations concerning their provenance. Their scope and content is as David Gregory indexed them, save for the missing items, which consist of two dozen papers and letters on general physics and maths, and...

Dates: c1680-c1708

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

Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio, 1700

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [index]

Scope and Contents

An index, in Gregory's hand, to the material he designated as Folio C.

Dates: 1700

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

Memoranda et observata in Batavia 1693 Maio, 17 May 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [31]

Scope and Contents Batavia is a seventeenth-century cognomen for the Netherlands, to which David Gregory went in the spring of 1693, mostly to talk science with Christiaan Huygens. This document is a list of some books he wished to buy for himself and for friends back home, if he could find them. They covered Palladius, Thucydides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Erasmus, "all I can find of the Roman Authors at Amst[erdam]", and others. On the reverse is a list of topics he wished to discuss when he finally sat...

Dates: 17 May 1693

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

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

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [14]

Scope and Contents

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

Papers of David Gregory

 Fonds

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

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Mathematics 6

Astronomy 5

Physics 4

Edinburgh -- Scotland 3

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Oxford Oxfordshire England 3

Amsterdam (Netherlands) 2

Anatomy 2

Economics 2

Medicine 2

Optics 2

Academic Libraries 1

Achromatic Telescope 1

Astrophysics 1

Bibliography 1

Celestial Mechanics 1

Curves 1

Dynamics 1

Geodesy 1

Geodetic Astronomy 1

Geometry, Elemental 1

Gravity 1

Horology 1

Leiden (Netherlands) 1

Light Propagation 1

London (England) 1

Lunar Theory 1

Motion Study 1

Numerical Integration 1

Pendulum 1

Philosophy 1

Quadratures 1

Refraction 1

Sphere 1

Tides 1

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