Oratio de Quadr: Lunale Hypocratis, 1690
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [190]
Scope and Contents
Graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one Laurence Oliphant. This young man may have been Gregory's future brother-in-law.
The subject is Hyppocrates' lunula. Two documents on the same subject come before this, no doubt as supporting notes. One is the draft of a letter from Gregory to Wallis, referring to a 1687 article by Tchirnhausen in the Leipzig Acta, the other, a transcript of that article.
Dates
- Creation: 1690
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From the Fonds: 0.5 metre
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From the Fonds: Multiple languages
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genreform: manuscript
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Duncan Fisher26 August 2002
Subject
- Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 (Dutch mathematician) (Person)
- Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (mathematician and astronomer) (Person)
- Oliphant, Laurence, fl1690 (science graduate from the University of Edinburgh, student of David Gregory) (Person)
- Tchirnhausen, Ehrenfried Walther Von, 1631 ? 1708 (German mathematician) (Person)
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