Epistola de quadraturis Dav: Gre: ad Wallisium missa et vol: alt: impressa, 1 July 1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [73]

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Draft of a letter (final version dated 21 July) to John Wallis, who wished to include Gregory's 'second method' of quadrature in the 1693 revision of his 'Algebra'.

Dates

Creation: 1 July 1692

Creator

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

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genreform: manuscript

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From the Fonds: 0.5 metre

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Duncan Fisher15 August 2002

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Mathematics

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Creator

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

Subject

Wallis, John, 1616-1703 (professor of geometry, University of Oxford) (Person)

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Epistola de quadraturis Dav: Gre: ad Wallisium missa et vol: alt: impressa, 1 July 1692

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