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A short memoire of the proceedings of the visitation in 1690 concerning Mr Gregory, 1690
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [26]
Scope and Contents
Gregory's record of his handling by the Committee.
Dates:
1690
A short memoire of the Town Councils carriage to me after the revolution, 1689
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [23]
Scope and Contents
An English narrative of the town-gown disputes that brought down the committee of visitation on Gregory's head.
Dates:
1689
An account of the tumults in Spring 1691 in Edr College, 1691
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [26]
Scope and Contents
Gregory's record of campus division between his camp and rival Massie's.
Dates:
1691
An answer to the former Lybel, 1689
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [25]
Scope and Contents
Gregory's own record of his initial answer to the recriminations that went before the Committee.
Dates:
1689
Folio B, c1669-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/Folio B
Scope and Contents
The papers of David Gregory consist of:
Most of the scientific content of Folio B comes from early in Gregory's career. It includes an index of later letters of John Collins (1625-1683) to James Gregorie (1638-1675), a number of Edinburgh lectures in geometry, mechanics, and optics, and some tables and manuscript pieces of 'Elementa Catoptricae et Dioptricae', the 'Institutes of Astronomy', and the...
Dates:
c1669-c1708
Libells agt Mr Gregory presented to the Visitation, 1689
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [24]
Scope and Contents
The original list of articles against Gregory, penned, he says, by regents Andrew Massie and Thomas Burnet.
Dates:
1689
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