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Catalogue of book[s] now in Holland, May 1693
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [23]
Scope and Contents
List of 17 titles (partial cites only) in Latin and French, in an unnamed repository, concerning history, classical literature, and philosophical commentary, such as the "Dictionaire Critique de M. Bail".
Dates:
May 1693
Catalogus Librorum Novorum Mathem: in Gallijs 1693, c1693
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [29]
Scope and Contents
List of partial titles in applied mathematics, mostly, in a hand other than David Gregory's-and one of them in Greek, not a language in which he was comfortable. 1693 was the year he made his last trip to the continent, visiting Flanders as new Savilian Professor. These varied titles consider things like the statics of exploding gunpowder and draining water, dioptrics, micromeasurement, catapults, and astrophysics. This bibliography may be part of a larger one, judging by "par le meme" in...
Dates:
c1693
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