Astronomy
Found in 101 Collections and/or Records:
Or Ms 396: تحریر المجستي Taḥrīr al-Mijistī, 1011 A.H., 1602 C.E.
A slightly defective copy of Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) edition of the Arabic version of Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy (c.100–170 C.E.), a 2nd-century Greek-language treatise on mathematics and astronomy concerning the planetary paths and motions of the stars.
The present copy contains many astronomical tables and diagrams; headings in red; an innumerable amount of glosses on the margin.
Or Ms 397: تحریر المجستي Taḥrīr al-Mijistī, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 398 شرح تذکرة الطوسي Sharḥ Tadhkirat al-Ṭūsī, 1146 A.H., 1733 C.E.
A copy of al-Sayyid al-Sharīf 'Alī al-Jurjānī's (died 816 A.H., 1413 C.E.) Arabic commentary on elements of astronomy by Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.). Text and diagrams in red.
Or Ms 417: تسهیل زیج محمّدشاهی Tashīl-i Zīj-i Muḥammad-shāhī, undated (original text compiled 17-18th Cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 729: Pocket Ruzname (almanac) of Şeyh Vefa, c. 1091 A.H., c. 1680 C.E.
Oratio de transitu lucis a [Jupiter] ad [Saturn], 1690
Edinburgh graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one William Cooper, concerning light rays passing close by Jupiter and Saturn.
Orbita Planetaria Cassiniana ab Auctore missa 1699, 1699
Jacque Cassini met Gregory in Oxford in March 1699, and gave him this writeup of his father Jean Dominique's famous 1693 planetary orbit. This was the first Gregory had seen of it, and his excited notes append the foot of the document.
Papers in geography, science, and letters, 1743-1783
Papers of David Gregory
Photographs at Mullard Radioastronomy Observatory, Cambridge, 1957 or after
The material consists of photographs at Mullard Radioastronomy Observatory, Cambridge. The group includes O. R. Frisch and M. Ryle.