• Astronomy
• Edinburgh -- Scotland
• Mathematics
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• Oxford Oxfordshire England
• Physics

Creator

• Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) (Person)

Subject

• Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677 (mathematician, classicist, and divine) (Person)
• Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 (natural philosopher and chemist) (Person)
• Collins, John, 1625-1683 (mathematician) (Person)
• Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650 (French mathematician) (Person)
• Diophantus of Alexandria, c200-c284 (Greek mathematician) (Person)
• Duillier, Fatio de, 1664-1753 (Swiss mathematician) (Person)
• Euclid of Alexandria, 325-265 BC (Egyptian mathematician) (Person)
• Fenton, James, fl1689 (Scottish mathematician) (Person)
• Flamsteed, John (first Astronomer Royal) (Person)
• Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) (Person)
• Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) (Person)
• Halley, Sir Edmund, 1656-1742 (astronomer) (Person)
• Hooke, Robert, (1635-1703) (Experimental physicist and professor of geometry, University of Oxford) (Person)
• Hudde, Jan, 1628-1704 (Dutch mathematician) (Person)
• Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 (Dutch mathematician) (Person)
• Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 (German mathematician and astronomer) (Person)
• Leibniz, Gottfried Willhelm, 1646-1716 (German mathematician and philosopher) (Person)
• Mercator, Nicholas, ?1620-1687 (called Kauffmann) (Person)
• Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (mathematician and astronomer) (Person)
• Pitcairne, Archibald, 1652-1713 (Scottish physician, amateur mathematician and poet) (Person)
• Ptolemy, Claudius, c85 -165 (Egyptian astronomer) (Person)
• Pythagoras of Samos, c569 BC-c475 BC (Greek mathematician) (Person)
• Schooten, Frans van, 1615-1660 (Dutch mathematician) (Person)
• Serenus, d c360 (Greek mathematician) (Person)
• Sluse, 1622-1685 (Belgian mathematician) (Person)
• Snell, Willebrord, 1591-1626 (called Snellius) (Person)
• Tchirnhausen, Ehrenfried Walther Von, 1631 ? 1708 (German mathematician) (Person)
• Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 (Italian mathematician) (Person)
• Wallis, John, 1616-1703 (professor of geometry, University of Oxford) (Person)

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