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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
De affirmanda parallaxi magni orbis, cogitatum Hugenii, June 1693
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [15]
Scope and Contents
A transcription of Christiaan Huygen's argument that because stars' observed radii are so insensibly small, the diameter of the earth's orbit relative to the stars' position is also insensible, and thus the parallax measurement, which ought to prove or disprove the Copernican layout of the heavens, is useless.
Dates:
June 1693
De Gradibus...Gravis Cadentis, s.d.
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [144]
Scope and Contents
A treatis on orbits and gravity.
Dates:
s.d.