Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

Tractata cum Hugenio - Hage Com. Maio 1693 (from index), 16 May 1693-18 May 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [8]

Scope and Contents Conversation notes pertaining to a meeting with Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands. Entry for 16 May 1693, following a jotted chapter citation (see note) and a squib about the glass used in microscopes, is an agenda for the discussion topics, which are to include foliate curves, Huygens' dioptrics (laws of refraction), compound 'astroscopes', gravitational theory of (his Oxford colleague from Switzerland,) Fatio de Duillier, a celestial-motion machine, a new pendulum for Huygens'...

Dates: 16 May 1693-18 May 1693

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

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Amsterdam (Netherlands) 1

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Centrifugal Force 1

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Curves 1

Economics 1

Edinburgh -- Scotland 1

Gravity 1

Horology 1

London (England) 1

Oxford Oxfordshire England 1

Planets 1

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