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Astronomy

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 101 Collections and/or Records:

Eclipses and latitude, c1700

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [067]
Scope and Contents

Calculation of London's latitude, given the times that certain eclipses happened around the globe.

Dates: c1700
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Eclipses and latitude, 1698-1700

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [069a]
Scope and Contents

Published resources for the Astronomiae.

Dates: 1698-1700
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Elementa Astronomiae, conscribenda a D.G. et al., 23 April 1697

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [60]
Scope and Contents

The basic planning document for David Gregory's major work, composed probably in conference, at eleven thirty in the morning, 23 April, 1697, with the collaborators' initials at the top.

Dates: 23 April 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Errata, 1704

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [055]
Scope and Contents

List of locations, apparently within the Astronomiae, where editorial changes are due.

Dates: 1704
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Explanation of Phenomena, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/38
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes in English and Latin on various known astronomical phenomena.

Dates: c1780-c1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

Folio B, c1669-c1708

 Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: Most of the scientific content of Folio B comes from early in Gregory's career. It includes an index of later letters of John Collins (1625-1683) to James Gregorie (1638-1675), a number of Edinburgh lectures in geometry, mechanics, and optics, and some tables and manuscript pieces of 'Elementa Catoptricae et Dioptricae', the 'Institutes of Astronomy', and the...
Dates: c1669-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

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...
Dates: c1680-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

Halleii methodus determinanti Aphectis Excentr: planete, 1676

 Item
Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [10]
Scope and Contents

A transcription of a 1667 article in the Transactions, in which Halley shows how to find a planet in its elliptical orbit.

Dates: 1676
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio B

Hydraulics, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/26
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on hydraulics. Numerous diagrams append, including an enormous one of a fourteen-foot water wheel.

Dates: c1780-c1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

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