Netherlands
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Locator = 52.132633;5.291266,Other = www.mygeoposition.com,Created For = Netherlands
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
A Perfect Accompt, Memorial, or Quotidian Record of the most considerable, materiall, and remarkable passages specially respecting and relative to the Public Commissions layd upon me, etc., as conservator of the privileges of the Scottish nation, etc., 1640-1654
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Identifier: La.III.639
Scope and Contents
"A Perfect Accompt, Memorial, or Quotidian Record of the most considerable, materiall, and remarkable passages specially respecting and relative to the Public Commissions layd upon me, etc., as conservator of the privileges of the Scottish nation, etc. in the Netherlands, from March 1640 till May 1654, observantly collected by me, Tho[mas] Cuningham". Chieftly manuscripts, with printed explication of the Thrissels Banner.
Dates:
1640-1654
Catalogue of book[s] now in Holland, May 1693
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [23]
Scope and Contents
List of 17 titles (partial cites only) in Latin and French, in an unnamed repository, concerning history, classical literature, and philosophical commentary, such as the "Dictionaire Critique de M. Bail".
Dates:
May 1693
Comparison of BoLA class II serotyping and 1D-IEF in a Dutch herd of Holstein-Fresians, 1990
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Identifier: Coll-1362/2/751
Scope and Contents
Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1990. Part 2.
Dates:
1990
Folio C, c1680-c1708
Series — Volume Dc.1.61: Series Coll-33/Folio C
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C
Scope and Contents
The papers of David Gregory consist of:
These are mostly handwritten items, bound together as a volume, though with some loose insertions of manuscripts which had strayed, some of them with modern annotations concerning their provenance. Their scope and content is as David Gregory indexed them, save for the missing items, which consist of two dozen papers and letters on general physics and maths, and several...
Dates:
c1680-c1708
Frequencies of BOLA Class I antigens in Dutch Friesian cattle in the Netherlands, 1990
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Identifier: Coll-1362/2/627
Scope and Contents
Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1990. Part 1 and Index.
Dates:
1990
Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio, 1700
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [index]
Scope and Contents
An index, in Gregory's hand, to the material he designated as Folio C.
Dates:
1700
Memoranda et observata in Batavia 1693 Maio, 17 May 1693
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [31]
Scope and Contents
Batavia is a seventeenth-century cognomen for the Netherlands, to which David Gregory went in the spring of 1693, mostly to talk science with Christiaan Huygens. This document is a list of some books he wished to buy for himself and for friends back home, if he could find them. They covered Palladius, Thucydides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Erasmus, "all I can find of the Roman Authors at Amst[erdam]", and others. On the reverse is a list of topics he wished to discuss when he finally sat down...
Dates:
17 May 1693
Observata et dicta apud D. Hugenium, 06 June 1693
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [4]
Scope and Contents
Notes of a conversation in Holland with Christian Huygens, concerning an 'horologium' to show hours, months, years, and planetary positions. More general mention of the work of numerous other scientists: Notably, Huygens disputes the notion of John Bernoulli (James Bernoulli's younger brother) that the curve of an inflated sail is part-catenary and part-circle, and warns that Newton ought not to be 'deflected' into theology or chemistry.
Dates:
06 June 1693
Scheda D.G. de rotatione globi de percussione orta, 12 February 1695
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [25]
Scope and Contents
David Gregory's solution to Sir Edmund Halley's problem, proposed during Gregory's composition of the "Tract on Fluxions", of finding the rotary motion in a sphere struck by another sphere. (Halley's solution is in Coll-33/Quarto A [7].) It is built on some basic lemmas and includes a reference (possibly after the date given) to proposition 40 of the "Tract on Fluxions".
Dates:
12 February 1695