Lectures by David Gregory
Fonds — Volume: Dc.6.12
Identifier: Coll-1608
Scope and Contents
Volume consists of teaching material originally produced by David Gregory, here transcribed with numerous drawings by Francis Pringle in Oxford in 1694-1695 and George Wood in St Andrews 1705. The volume's index is in Gregory's hand. The lectures, all by Gregory, are the Institutiones Astronomiae, the Oxford address on professional education he called De Ratione Studii Mathematici Consilium, the Lectiones Opticae, Trigonometria Planorum Angulorum, Geometria Practica, Geometriae de Motu, and the Hydrostatica. There is also James Gregorie's doctoral thesis, edited by his nephew David Gregory and dictated in 1690.
Dates
- Creation: c1694-c1705
Creator
- Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) (Author, Person)
Extent
1 volume
Creator
- Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) (Author, Person)
- Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) (Narrator, Person)
- Pringle, Francis, fl1705 (physician and professor of Greek, University of St Andrews) (Illustrator, Person)
- Wood, George, fl1705 (Illustrator, Person)
- Title
- Notes taken Francis Pringle at lectures by David Gregory
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
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University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk