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Oratio de Baroscopiis in Coni: publ: Acad: Edinburg: 1688, 1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [188]

Scope and Contents

Graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one Charles Sinclair. It explains the barometer, and mentions the work of Torricelli, Huygens, and Hooke. Several diagrams append.

Dates: 1688

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

Oratio de Quadr: Lunale Hypocratis, 1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [190]

Scope and Contents

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

Probl: ... et theorema Hugeniarium ..., 1680's

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [127]

Scope and Contents

Notes on Huygens and Deschales.

Dates: 1680's

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

Problema Alhazeni, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [24]

Scope and Contents

Huygens's treatment of a problem by Alhazen, which appears to have been copied out at the same time as item 23 before.

Dates: c1690

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

Propositiones Quaedam de Ludo Aleae ..., s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [22]

Scope and Contents

Propositions from Huygens on dicing and games of chance generally. (He may mean 'tessella' where he refers to 'tessera', or perhaps he refers to dominoes.)

Dates: s.d.

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

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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