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Ad Jo: De Witt Elem: Curvarum, 1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [88]
Scope and Contents

A demonstratio on one of de Witt's notes on Schooten's 1659 Latin edition of Descartes' Geometria. Unrelated jottings on reverse are in a hand other than Gregory's.

Dates: 1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Bayle de refractione, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [160]
Scope and Contents

A page on the apparent position of planets, in light of Descartes. "Bayle" could conceivably refer to Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), who critiqued Cartesianism once, early in his career, but Peter Bayle was not strictly known as a mathematician or an astronomer.

Dates: s.d.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charta 4 fol. Notae ad loca quaedam difficiliora Geom: Cartesianae, October 1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [3]
Scope and Contents

Commentary on Schooten's 1659 edition of Descartes' "Geometria".

Dates: October 1696
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Contra Cartesium de refractione, 1680's

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [161]
Scope and Contents

A general critique of Cartesian geometry.

Dates: 1680's
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ex Renaldinis de Maximis et Minimis, c1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [5]
Scope and Contents

Analysis of Renaldini's treatment of maximi and minimi, itself a reworking of Fermat.

Four pages of Descart on curves are bound with this document.

Dates: c1696
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Excerpta et notanda in Kepleri ... ad vitellionem, c1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [38.1]
Scope and Contents

A discussion, probably inspired by Sir Isaac Newton, of whether it was Willebrord Snell or Voss who discovered a law of refraction first, from which Rene Descartes arguably derived his version at last.

Dates: c1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Explicatio ... in Geometria Cartesiana, et ... de natura aequationum, c1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [51]
Scope and Contents

Rough notes, very likely composed at Rotterdam, on the Latin edition of Rene Descartes' Geometria, (1659), which was published by Schooten.

Dates: c1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Ichnographia ville prope Leidam ubi Des Cartes mansit, 1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [154]
Scope and Contents

A ground plan of Descartes' house near Leyden. On the reverse is a Latin treatment of the relationship between religious faith and philosophical certitude.

Dates: 1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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Schooten, Frans van, 1615-1660 (Dutch mathematician) 6
Duillier, Fatio de, 1664-1753 (Swiss mathematician) 4
Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (mathematician and astronomer) 4
Snell, Willebrord, 1591-1626 (called Snellius) 4
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Collins, John, 1625-1683 (mathematician) 3
Flamsteed, John (first Astronomer Royal) 3
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 3
Halley, Sir Edmund, 1656-1742 (astronomer) 3
Hudde, Jan, 1628-1704 (Dutch mathematician) 3
Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 (Dutch mathematician) 3
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 (German mathematician and astronomer) 3
Mercator, Nicholas, ?1620-1687 (called Kauffmann) 3
Pitcairne, Archibald, 1652-1713 (Scottish physician, amateur mathematician and poet) 3
Ptolemy, Claudius, c85 -165 (Egyptian astronomer) 3
Serenus, d c360 (Greek mathematician) 3
Sluse, 1622-1685 (Belgian mathematician) 3
Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 (Italian mathematician) 3
Wallis, John, 1616-1703 (professor of geometry, University of Oxford) 3
De Witt, Jan, 1625-1672 (Dutch statesman and mathematician) 2
Diophantus of Alexandria, c200-c284 (Greek mathematician) 2
Euclid of Alexandria, 325-265 BC (Egyptian mathematician) 2
Fenton, James, fl1689 (Scottish mathematician) 2
Hooke, Robert, (1635-1703) (Experimental physicist and professor of geometry, University of Oxford) 2
Leibniz, Gottfried Willhelm, 1646-1716 (German mathematician and philosopher) 2
Pythagoras of Samos, c569 BC-c475 BC (Greek mathematician) 2
Tchirnhausen, Ehrenfried Walther Von, 1631 ? 1708 (German mathematician) 2
Voss, 1618-1689 (Dutch mathematician) 2
Anderson, Robert, fl1668-1696 (mathematician and silk-weaver) 1
Apollonius of Perga, 262-190 BC (Greek mathematician) 1
Archimedes, of Syracuse, 287-212 BC (Sicillian mathematician) 1
Baker, Thomas, 1625?-1689 (ecclesiastic and amateur mathematician) 1
Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706 (French Philosopher) 1
Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742 (clergyman, scholar and critic) 1
Bernard, Edward, 1638-1696 (professor of astronomy, University of Oxford) 1
Bernoulli, Jean, 1667-1748 (Swiss mathematician) 1
Busby, Richard, 1606-1695 (headmaster of Westminster School, London) 1
Cassini, Jean Dominique, 1625-1712 (Italian astronomer) 1
Cheyne, George, 1671-1743 (Scottish physician and amateur mathematician) 1
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 (Polish astronomer) 1
Falconer, John, fl1690 (science graduate from the University of Edinburgh, student of David Gregory) 1
Fermat, Pierre de, 17 August 1601-12 January 1665 (mathematician) 1
Gray, fl1692 (London book collector) 1
Hôpital, Guillaume De l', 1661-1704 (French mathematician) 1
Josephus, Flavius, 37-100? (Jewish historian in the house of Vespasian) 1
Keill, John, 1671-1721 (mathematician and astronomer) 1
Lloyd, William, d1717 (Bishop of Worcester) 1
Lucretius, Titus Carus, c98-55 BC (Latin poet and philosopher) 1
Mackenzie, George, 1630-1714 (Viscount Tarbat | 1st Earl of Cromarty) 1
Mackworth, Sir Humphry, 1657-1727 (politician and mining capitalist) 1
Mary of Modena, 1658-1718 (Queen of James II of England) 1
Renaldini, Carlo, 1615-1679 (mathematician) 1
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 1
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
Volder, Burchard De, 1643-1709 (Dutch mathematician) 1
Whiston, William, 1667-1752 (divine and natural philosopher) 1
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