Extrait de Manouvre des Vaisseaux ... sequuntur ... de Newtoni cogitatio, 1694
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [57]
Scope and Contents
A jotting, dated 1694, about a book on how vessels turn (for Gregory was interested in how solids behaved in fluids), and diagrams on the catenary curve, annotated annoted by Gregory and by Newton, almost certainly during their five-day meeting in Cambridge in May of the same year.
Dates
- Creation: 1694
Creator
- Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) (Person)
- Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (mathematician and astronomer) (Person)
Full Extent
From the Fonds: 0.5 metre
Language of Materials
From the Fonds: Multiple languages
Physical Description
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Physical Description
genreform: manuscript
Processing Information
None.
Processing Information
Duncan Fisher14 August 2002
Topical
Repository Details
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heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk