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17th century notebook (Heylin / Van Helmont / Gregory)
Fonds — Folder: Coll-1968 (Dk.3.32)
Identifier: Coll-1968
Scope and Contents
Notebook in multiple hands , including "Observations out off Heylin's Cosmographie", "Religio Medici Van Helmont", "Catlogus Lib. Math consulente Gregario". Also, list of seeds, 1690.
Dates:
17th century
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...
Dates:
c1694-c1705
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- Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) 1
- Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644 1
- Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662 1
- Pringle, Francis, fl1705 (physician and professor of Greek, University of St Andrews) 1
- Wood, George, fl1705 1