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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Excerpta de Codico M.S. Henratii communicata a [illegible], 27 May 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [19]
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Extract of a volume (only partially cited) found by David Gregory in Amsterdam. He captions this "F: a. Schoten', suggesting that the work transcribed is that of geometer Frans van Schooten (1615-1660). The work concerns curves and quadratures, and is laced with comparisons to the work of Jan Hudde.

Dates: 27 May 1693
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]
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An index, in Gregory's hand, to the material he designated as Folio C.

Dates: 1700
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Memoranda et observata in Batavia 1693 Maio, 17 May 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [31]
Scope and Contents Batavia is a seventeenth-century cognomen for the Netherlands, to which David Gregory went in the spring of 1693, mostly to talk science with Christiaan Huygens. This document is a list of some books he wished to buy for himself and for friends back home, if he could find them. They covered Palladius, Thucydides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Erasmus, "all I can find of the Roman Authors at Amst[erdam]", and others. On the reverse is a list of topics he wished to discuss when he finally sat...
Dates: 17 May 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Observata et dicta apud D. Hugenium, 06 June 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [4]
Scope and Contents

Notes of a conversation in Holland with Christian Huygens, concerning an 'horologium' to show hours, months, years, and planetary positions. More general mention of the work of numerous other scientists: Notably, Huygens disputes the notion of John Bernoulli (James Bernoulli's younger brother) that the curve of an inflated sail is part-catenary and part-circle, and warns that Newton ought not to be 'deflected' into theology or chemistry.

Dates: 06 June 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Observata et Dicta ... cum Huygeno Junio 1693, 30 June 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [14]
Scope and Contents

Remarks en passant about library volumes in history and physics seen in Leiden. A longer passage follows: notes to a conversation with Christiaan Huygens, critiquing Sir Isaac Newton's notions of absolute motion and the propagation of light. Huygens also says that John Flamsteed ought to declare for the absolute speed of light, and that this should persuade Jean Dominique Cassini.

Dates: 30 June 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Quarto A, c1680-c1708

 Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory in Quarto A consist of: 107 manuscript papers and an index, relating to: theoretical physics, including optics, especially treatises on refraction and colour, on mechanics, specifically on velocity, gravitation, centrifugal and centripetal force, and the movement of solids through fluid, and an occasional thought on magnetic attraction. Applied physics, considering ships,...
Dates: c1680-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Quo ad D.G. spectant in Pitcarnii Probl. de inventoribus, after August 1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [42]
Scope and Contents Commentary on Archibald Pitcairne's Edinburgh edition of Solutio Problematis de Historicis; seu de Inventoribus Dissertatio, (1688) of which an enlarged edition appeared at Leiden in 1693. This tract made Pitcairne's subsequent medical career on the continent for its vindication of the claims of William Harvey to the discovery of the circulation of the blood. It contains other things as well, notably the first public presentation of Gregory's second method of...
Dates: after August 1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Scheda D.G. de rotatione globi de percussione orta, 12 February 1695

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [25]
Scope and Contents

David Gregory's solution to Sir Edmund Halley's problem, proposed during Gregory's composition of the "Tract on Fluxions", of finding the rotary motion in a sphere struck by another sphere. (Halley's solution is in Coll-33/Quarto A [7].) It is built on some basic lemmas and includes a reference (possibly after the date given) to proposition 40 of the "Tract on Fluxions".

Dates: 12 February 1695
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Names
Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 (Dutch mathematician) 6
Flamsteed, John (first Astronomer Royal) 5
Hudde, Jan, 1628-1704 (Dutch mathematician) 5
Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (mathematician and astronomer) 5
Halley, Sir Edmund, 1656-1742 (astronomer) 4
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Pitcairne, Archibald, 1652-1713 (Scottish physician, amateur mathematician and poet) 4
Schooten, Frans van, 1615-1660 (Dutch mathematician) 4
Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677 (mathematician, classicist, and divine) 3
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 (natural philosopher and chemist) 3
Collins, John, 1625-1683 (mathematician) 3
Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650 (French mathematician) 3
Duillier, Fatio de, 1664-1753 (Swiss mathematician) 3
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 3
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 (German mathematician and astronomer) 3
Mercator, Nicholas, ?1620-1687 (called Kauffmann) 3
Ptolemy, Claudius, c85 -165 (Egyptian astronomer) 3
Serenus, d c360 (Greek mathematician) 3
Sluse, 1622-1685 (Belgian mathematician) 3
Snell, Willebrord, 1591-1626 (called Snellius) 3
Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 (Italian mathematician) 3
Wallis, John, 1616-1703 (professor of geometry, University of Oxford) 3
Bernoulli, Jean, 1667-1748 (Swiss mathematician) 2
Cassini, Jean Dominique, 1625-1712 (Italian astronomer) 2
Diophantus of Alexandria, c200-c284 (Greek mathematician) 2
Euclid of Alexandria, 325-265 BC (Egyptian mathematician) 2
Fenton, James, fl1689 (Scottish mathematician) 2
Hooke, Robert, (1635-1703) (Experimental physicist and professor of geometry, University of Oxford) 2
Leibniz, Gottfried Willhelm, 1646-1716 (German mathematician and philosopher) 2
Pythagoras of Samos, c569 BC-c475 BC (Greek mathematician) 2
Tchirnhausen, Ehrenfried Walther Von, 1631 ? 1708 (German mathematician) 2
Anderson, Robert, fl1668-1696 (mathematician and silk-weaver) 1
Apollonius of Perga, 262-190 BC (Greek mathematician) 1
Archimedes, of Syracuse, 287-212 BC (Sicillian mathematician) 1
Baker, Thomas, 1625?-1689 (ecclesiastic and amateur mathematician) 1
Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706 (French Philosopher) 1
Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742 (clergyman, scholar and critic) 1
Bernard, Edward, 1638-1696 (professor of astronomy, University of Oxford) 1
Bernoulli, James, 1654-1705 (Swiss mathematician) 1
Busby, Richard, 1606-1695 (headmaster of Westminster School, London) 1
Cheyne, George, 1671-1743 (Scottish physician and amateur mathematician) 1
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 (Polish astronomer) 1
Gray, fl1692 (London book collector) 1
Harvey, William, 1578-1657 (physician) 1
Hôpital, Guillaume De l', 1661-1704 (French mathematician) 1
Josephus, Flavius, 37-100? (Jewish historian in the house of Vespasian) 1
Keill, John, 1671-1721 (mathematician and astronomer) 1
Lloyd, William, d1717 (Bishop of Worcester) 1
Lucretius, Titus Carus, c98-55 BC (Latin poet and philosopher) 1
Mackenzie, George, 1630-1714 (Viscount Tarbat | 1st Earl of Cromarty) 1
Mackworth, Sir Humphry, 1657-1727 (politician and mining capitalist) 1
Mary of Modena, 1658-1718 (Queen of James II of England) 1
Mercator, Gerardus, 1512-1594 (mathematician and cartographer) 1
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 1
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
Volder, Burchard De, 1643-1709 (Dutch mathematician) 1
Voss, 1618-1689 (Dutch mathematician) 1
Whiston, William, 1667-1752 (divine and natural philosopher) 1
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