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Hygroscopium per [illegible], 1697

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [110]
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Diagram and English description of a twisted-cord hygrometer. Below is Lucan's epigram about Pompey's failure to preserve the Republic against Caesar's megalomania. The date is 15 September 1697. Attached by glue is a slip of paper showing a short line of algebra.

Dates: 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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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
  • Subject: Meteorological Instruments X

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Hooke, Robert, (1635-1703) (Experimental physicist and professor of geometry, University of Oxford) 1
Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 (Dutch mathematician) 1
Sinclair, Charles, fl1688 (science graduate from the University of Edinburgh, student of David Gregory) 1
Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 (Italian mathematician) 1
 

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