Sluse, 1622-1685 (Belgian mathematician)

Demonstratio 10me Regulae Huddenii, May 1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [103]

Scope and Contents

A problem from Descartes, worked through by Hudde, whose notes were included in the 1659 edition of the Geometria. This was probably written out in Rotterdam and sent to a friend as a letter.

Juxtaposed to this item, and possibly out of sequence, is the unlabelled and undated "Francisci Renati Slusii Methodus Tangentium', extracted in a hand other than Gregory's, from the January 1673 Transactions.

Dates: May 1680

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

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

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

Folio E, c1692-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/Folio E

Scope and Contents The constitution of the Folio E papers of David Gregory follows: The documents' order is random, but the collection has several foci. One is David Gregory the academic's need for books. Numerous shopping lists for titles abroad reflect this, (one of which also includes a requirement for tea), as do inventories of other people's libraries nearer to home. Another focus in the collection is Gregory's public...

Dates: c1692-c1708

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

Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio, 1700

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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

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

Methodus Tangentium demonstrata ..., not later than 1691

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [39]

Scope and Contents

Exposition, by Leiden mathematician Burchard de Volder (possibly in his hand), of René-François de Sluse's method of tangents.

Dates: not later than 1691

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

Primo designatur..., 1680's

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [196]

Scope and Contents This enormous and varied tranche of material begins as preliminary work, 'Ordo Faciendorum' for the Exercitatio Geometrica, mentioning in particular the work of Canon Sluse, and broadens into a running record of Gregory's thoughts on quadrature, mostly, beginning with a page of 'Desiderata'. Curiosities intervene: a writeup, possibly in the hand of one Robert Morrison, of everything known about the plant substance Nicotine; two more broadsheet cuttings of the mathematical...

Dates: 1680's

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