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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [143]

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Gregory's early attempt to prove Sluse's rule for tangents from Fermat or from Barrow.

Dates: c1683

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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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

Names: Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) X
Names: Fermat, Pierre de, 17 August 1601-12 January 1665 (mathematician) X

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