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Oratio de Baroscopiis in Coni: publ: Acad: Edinburg: 1688, 1688

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [188]
Scope and Contents

Graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one Charles Sinclair. It explains the barometer, and mentions the work of Torricelli, Huygens, and Hooke. Several diagrams append.

Dates: 1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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  • Names: Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) X
  • Names: Sinclair, Charles, fl1688 (science graduate from the University of Edinburgh, student of David Gregory) X

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