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Colin Campbell Collection
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-38
Scope and Contents
The Colin Campbell Collection contains Gaelic verse, mainly songs; sermon notes and scripture expositions, the earliest being 1703; manuscript treatises; Colin Campbell correspondence, the earliest being 1664; miscellaneous manuscripts including domestic accounts, medical papers, minutes etc; notebooks, accounts, letters and scraps of Patrick Campbell of Achnaba; letters from mathematicians to Colin Campbell, and mathematical papers; a body of accounts, the earliest being 1553; a body of...
Dates:
1553-1836
Commentary on 'De Sphaera'
Fonds — Volume: Dk.7.29
Identifier: Coll-1947
Scope and Contents
Volume entitled Buchananus De Sphaera: George Buchanan, with commentary by Adam King, covering key aspects of mathematical, natural philosophical, and astronomical knowledge from antiquity to the early modern period, from the Christian West and the Islamicate and pre-Islamic East, and from Copernicus to Galileo and Kepler. Bound with this is a second manuscript containing poetry by King.
Dates:
c1616
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
Material relating to William Baird, being 'Some principles of Arithmetique'
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1236
Scope and Contents
The manuscript forming the collection looks at Some principles of arithmetique containing all the parts thereof and the severall ways of working. The manuscript includes three parts: mathematics, law and astronomy. The notes and the exlibris inscription suggest that this volume, which is bound in contemporary calf, was the work of William Baird of Dysart - 'Ex libris Gulielmi Baird'. The first part, titled 'Some principles of arithmetique...
Dates:
1676
Papers of David Gregory
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-33
Scope and Contents
The papers of David Gregory consist of:
bound manuscripts of mathematical and personal papers by both David Gregory and James Gregory
bound manuscripts Lectiones Mechanicae Sive Geometria de Motu parts 1-4 (1689-1690)
bound manuscripts of treatises on mathematics and astronomy (1683-1694)
bound manuscripts Notae in...
Dates:
1652-1706
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- Baird, William, fl. 1670-1680 ('of Dysart') 1
- Buchanan, George, 1506-1582 (Scottish expatriate, historian and scholar, anti-absolutist and satyrist of clerical vice) 1
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- George, Prince of Denmark, 1653-1708 (Prince of Denmark) 1
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- King, Adam, c1560-c1625 (Scottish polymath) 1
- King, William, fl17th century (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 1
- MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746 (mathematician) 1
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- Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 1
- Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (mathematician and astronomer) 1
- Pringle, Francis, fl1705 (physician and professor of Greek, University of St Andrews) 1
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