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Caroli Oliphant praefatio ad Opticam De. Gregorii, 1680's

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [114]

Scope and Contents An unpublished preface to Gregory's Optics. He praises Gregory's language, and excuses his editorial limitation to spherical surfaces. Since Descartes' discovery of the sine law of refraction, he says, optical writers have expected too much from still-crude contemporary reflective surfaces. Charles Oliphant is known to us only as a physician, not a scientist, but may also have been Gregory's brother-in-law; he may be the same Charles Oliphant as the one Gregory taught briefly at...

Dates: 1680's

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Carulus Bovillus ... Cycloidem Noverat 1507, 9 November 1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [109]

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A page of reading notes from mathematics works from 1503-1509, edited it appears by one Charles Bovill. An inky thumbprint obscures one of the two diagrams on the page.

An algebraic proof, possibly unrelated, follows on a separate sheet.

Dates: 9 November 1696

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Catalogue of book[s] now in Holland, May 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [23]

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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

Catalogue of the Mathematical Works of the Learned Mr. Thomas Baker, c1683

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [11]

Scope and Contents 7 page printed catalogue of the mathematical works of Thomas Baker. According to David Gregory's own index this was "Printed by Mr Collins". John Collins was a well known register of scientific accomplishments and zealous correspondent with Gregory and his uncle James Gregory (the source of David's core maths collection). This catalogue was printed, with a proposal for producing all of Baker's works in full, under the aegis of the Royal Society, whose council approved the measure and agreed...

Dates: c1683

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Catalogus librorum non videram 1692, 1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [44]

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Ersatz title is "Memorandum to Dr Gray to pick up as he finds opportunity these books". They are partial titles, numbering about a dozen, covering subjects as divers as optics, astronomy, and gardening.

Dates: 1692

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Celestial observations, 6 May 1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [82]

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Tabulations of an evening's heavenly observation. The movement of something in the constellation of Leo appears to be the subject.

Dates: 6 May 1696

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charta 4 fol. Notae ad loca quaedam difficiliora Geom: Cartesianae, October 1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [3]

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Commentary on Schooten's 1659 edition of Descartes' "Geometria".

Dates: October 1696

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Chartae 4. fol: de Nostra 2da Quadrandi Methodo, 1686

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [206]

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A tranche of workpapers in which Gregory continues to labour on adapting Newton's method of quadrature. He continues to have trouble adapting the basic series, an indefinite integral, to the definite integral defined between O and x.

One paper among these was probably intended for the Astronomiae, showing a body moving in an ellipse.

Dates: 1686

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collatio Dat: Euclidis, c1703

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [059]

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Notes on Gregory's Euclid volume.

Dates: c1703

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Caroli Oliphant praefatio ad Opticam De. Gregorii, 1680's

Carulus Bovillus ... Cycloidem Noverat 1507, 9 November 1696

Catalogue of book[s] now in Holland, May 1693

Catalogue of the Mathematical Works of the Learned Mr. Thomas Baker, c1683

Catalogus librorum non videram 1692, 1692

Catalogus Librorum Novorum Mathem: in Gallijs 1693, c1693

Celestial observations, 6 May 1696

Charta 4 fol. Notae ad loca quaedam difficiliora Geom: Cartesianae, October 1696

Chartae 4. fol: de Nostra 2da Quadrandi Methodo, 1686

Collatio Dat: Euclidis, c1703

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