Astronomy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Quarto A, c1680-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/Quarto A
Scope and Contents
The papers of David Gregory in Quarto A consist of:
107 manuscript papers and an index, relating to: theoretical physics, including optics, especially treatises on refraction and colour, on mechanics, specifically on velocity, gravitation, centrifugal and centripetal force, and the movement of solids through fluid, and an occasional thought on magnetic attraction. Applied physics, considering ships,...
Dates:
c1680-c1708
Shelf list, s.d.
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [71]
Scope and Contents
Part of what appears to be a shelf list of some library's holdings in astronomy.
Dates:
s.d.
Summarium nostra Astronomiae Phys: et Geom:, c1690
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [56(2)]
Scope and Contents
One-page summary of Gregory's major textbook.
Dates:
c1690
Table of corrections, c1704
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [065]
Scope and Contents
Corrigenda, probably for the Astronomiae.
Dates:
c1704
Varia positiones ... in prob: Pappi, c1703
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [59]
Scope and Contents
Latin and English notes on Pappus, probably in connection with his book project on the ancient geometers.
The third side of this item is unrelated, a copy of an 1707 letter from Gregory, Christopher Wren, Isaac Newton, and others, to Danish astronomer Olav Roemer, concerning the Astronomiae, and accuracy of certain calculations and observations by Flamsteed and Tycho Brahe. The Tycho ms. is probably the 1627 Tabulae Rudolphinae, translated by Kepler.
Dates:
c1703