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Astronomy

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Motuum cometarum omnium hactenus observatorum, c1700

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Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [14(2)]
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Tabulation of all known cometary appearances to 1698, for use in the Elementa Astronomica, book five.

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

Mr Whistons mistakes in his new theory, 3 April 1698

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [45]
Scope and Contents A short critique of William Whiston's A New Theory of the Earth, from its Original to the Consummation of all Things, (1696) , intended to damn Cartesian astronomy and advance corollaries to Newtonian thought instead. He affirmed the truth of the flood narrative in Genesis, ascribing the deluge to the impact of a comet. Whiston had been converted to Newtonianism by a paper of David Gregory. At the foot of this document is an unrelated note, dated 6 Sept. 1708, to...
Dates: 3 April 1698
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Mutanda in Nostra Astronomia, 1700

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [015]
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Late changes in Gregory's 'Astronomiae physicae et geometricae elementa'. Some comments are from Dr Arbuthnot and some from 'Mr Kyle', probably John Keill.

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

Notata Math. Nov: 1702, November 1702

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [62(2)]
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This small page appears to go with item 61(2), Newton's refraction table. 1702 was the year that the Astronomiae came out, by which time Gregory was also well under way with his ancient geometers project.

Dates: November 1702
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Notata Phys: et Math:, 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [90]
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Notes about things that include refraction, comets, and time.

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

Nouvelle ... geometrique et divers les trouver les apoges, les excentricites, et les anomalies du mouvement des planetes per M Cassini, c1700

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Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [9]
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A transcription of a 1669 article by Jean Domenique Cassini in the Journal des Scavans. This is Cassini's much-examined method of determining a planet's position in an elliptical orbit.

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

Observ: Eclipsos Lunaris Oxon 19 Octr 1697 et [Mercury] in [the Sun] 24 Oct 1697, October 1697, with 2 apparently attached documents from 17041693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [28]
Scope and Contents Two straightforward records of planetary eclipses, but meant, on palaeographic evidence, to be kept with a draft and a fair copy of a subsequent Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society article [Vol. XXIV, No. 293, for September-October 1704, p1704] about the Cassini curve, a model of how a periodic comet probably orbits. Folding and fading of these documents suggest that they were inserted not long after David Gregory generated his index of Quarto A (which he drew up around 1700)....
Dates: October 1697, with 2 apparently attached documents from 17041693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Observatio Eclipsis lunaris Oxonii, May 1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [1]
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Tabulated observational data of the 1696 lunar eclipse which Gregory watched from Oxford.

Dates: May 1696
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

On Cassini's orbit, 10 September 1704

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [050]
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A draft, on the eve of the publication of the Astronomiae, of a discussion in proposition 8 of Cassini's orbit, an apparent compromise between the true and approximate systems.

Dates: 10 September 1704
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Oratio de transitu lucis a [Jupiter] ad [Saturn], 1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [193]
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Edinburgh graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one William Cooper, concerning light rays passing close by Jupiter and Saturn.

Dates: 1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

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