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An abstract of Schurnhaus Letter, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [28]
Scope and Contents

An abstract of 1676 correspondence to a colleague from Tchurnhaus, on radicals in equations.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

De problematibus arithmeticis et geometricis in generali consideratis et horum Historia, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [91]
Scope and Contents

A short treatise on some of the recent evolution in maths.

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

D.T. Nova methodus determinandi Maxima et Minima, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [32]
Scope and Contents

Hand-copy of an article (Act. Eruditorum Lipsiae, Mar. 1683) by Tschirnhaus, on maxima and minima. The hand may not be Gregory's.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ex Tschurnhausii Theoremate et Methodo Deducitur Canon meus, 1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [207]
Scope and Contents

A 11-page tranche of workpapers in which Gregory derives his own conclusions from the work of Tchirnhausen.

Dates: 1688
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

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

Inventio Canonis quo facillime ex quaratico Tschurnhausii determinatur quadranda, c1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [209]
Scope and Contents

Gregory learns more quadrature from Tchirnhausen.

Dates: c1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Mr Tschirnhaus de tangentibus, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [31]
Scope and Contents

Tschirnhaus on tangents.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Mr Tschirnhaus's Rules for Equations, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [29]
Scope and Contents

Tschirnhaus on algebra, in Gregory's hand.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Oratio de Quadr: Lunale Hypocratis, 1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [190]
Scope and Contents

Graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one Laurence Oliphant. This young man may have been Gregory's future brother-in-law.

The subject is Hyppocrates' lunula. Two documents on the same subject come before this, no doubt as supporting notes. One is the draft of a letter from Gregory to Wallis, referring to a 1687 article by Tchirnhausen in the Leipzig Acta, the other, a transcript of that article.

Dates: 1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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