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
Physical Description
1
Physical Description
genreform: manuscript
Extent
From the Fonds: 0.5 metre
Physical Description
1
Physical Description
genreform: manuscript
Processing Information
None.
Processing Information
Duncan Fisher14 August 2002
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk