Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650 (French mathematician)
Person
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Notata in D: de Witt Loca plana et solida, 1696
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [2]
Scope and Contents
12 pages of commentary on De Witt's notes in Schooten's 1659 edition of Descarted. The last page appears to have been bound out of sequence; part of this document was inadvertently misnumbered by Gregory as item 3.
Dates:
1696
Oratio de Mundi systemate contra Cartesiones, 1690
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [189]
Scope and Contents
Graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one John Falconer. This young man may have been related to the Falconer who secured Lord Tarbat's interest for Gregory over the dreaded Visitation.
Dates:
1690
Quarto A, c1680-c1708
Series — Box: Dk.1.2
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, tides, and...
Dates:
c1680-c1708
Refer: ad Geom: Cartesianam, 1680
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [148]
Scope and Contents
Thoughts on Descartes, written up in Rotterdam.
Dates:
1680