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Halley, Sir Edmund, 1656-1742 (astronomer)

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Scheda D.G. de rotatione globi de percussione orta, 12 February 1695

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [25]
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David Gregory's solution to Sir Edmund Halley's problem, proposed during Gregory's composition of the "Tract on Fluxions", of finding the rotary motion in a sphere struck by another sphere. (Halley's solution is in Coll-33/Quarto A [7].) It is built on some basic lemmas and includes a reference (possibly after the date given) to proposition 40 of the "Tract on Fluxions".

Dates: 12 February 1695
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

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