Hudde, Jan, 1628-1704 (Dutch mathematician)
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Excerpta de Codico M.S. Henratii communicata a [illegible], 27 May 1693
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [19]
Scope and Contents
Extract of a volume (only partially cited) found by David Gregory in Amsterdam. He captions this "F: a. Schoten', suggesting that the work transcribed is that of geometer Frans van Schooten (1615-1660). The work concerns curves and quadratures, and is laced with comparisons to the work of Jan Hudde.
Dates:
27 May 1693
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
Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio, 1700
Item
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
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
Tractata et Dicta Huddenis Amsterodami, Maio 1693, 27 May 1693
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [9]
Scope and Contents
Minute account of a day-long meeting with Jan Hudde in Amsterdam, covering things algebraic. Allusions to Gerardus Mercator's vindication about hyperbolics, and to foliate curves in general.
Dates:
27 May 1693
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