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A Jacobo Cassini quaerendum, 1698
Things Gregory wished to discuss with Jacques Cassini, son of Jean Dominique, deviser of the famous curve, in his upcoming trip to England in 1698.
A large collection of poems good, bad, burlesque, English, Latine, Scotch, c1690
Two poems remain in this collection: one a short Latin panegyric on local worthies, the other an extended English ode to Presbyterian sensibilities.
A paper of my own about the descent in a Cycloid printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1697, cFebruary 1697
A late draft of an elementary development of Christiaan Huygens' work on the cycloid, that finally appeared anonymously in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for February 1697 (nos 225, 424).
A problem proposed by Robert Anderson 1698 about Geometry, c1675-1698
A search for a way to find an angle in a right triangle bisected laterally by a parabola. It is signed "Rob:t Anderson", and is written in a hand presumably his. Gregory has written, "sent to me by Mr G Keith Aprilo 1698) at the bottom.
A project for a Navigation school presented to the E: India company of Scotland, 10 April 1696
Gregory's thoughts on how Scotland might use her science to emulate the commercial success of England and Holland. The enterprise he probably has in mind is the Darien venture to central America, which sailed from Leith two years later.
A scheme of the several counties of England..., 1708-1710
A plan for reapportionment of tax dues among certain counties, calculated by one John Smart about 1699.
A short memoire of the proceedings of the visitation in 1690 concerning Mr Gregory, 1690
Gregory's record of his handling by the Committee.
A short memoire of the Town Councils carriage to me after the revolution, 1689
An English narrative of the town-gown disputes that brought down the committee of visitation on Gregory's head.
A table of the descendants from K. Ja:6, 1699-1707
A diagram of royal descendants, to four geneations. On the reverse, after a faded jotting about a colleague in Magdalen College knowing a great deal about fluxions, is a musing on astrology, the Roman church, and how to calculate the date for Easter, followed by a political prognostication.
A Theoreme Concerning Dice, s.d.
A jotting on game theory.