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Astronomy

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

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

Explanation of Phenomena, c1780-c1803

 Item
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

 Item
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

 Item
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

Institutionum Astronomicorum Liber 1 et 2, 1685

 Item
Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [7]
Scope and Contents

Extract of Gregory's Edinburgh course in astronomy, with 10 drawn diagrams.

Dates: 1685
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio B

Jac: Gregorii Oratio &c in Comitiis publ: Acad Andreanae 1690, 1690

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [194]
Scope and Contents

Oration, or part of one, on Cartesian, Ptolemaic, and Tychonian cosmology. The James in this case must refer to David's brother.

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

Jo: Casswelli Observatio..., 1697

 Item
Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [14(1)]
Scope and Contents

A diagram of Mercury's passage near the sun on 23 October 1697, desribed by Dr Wallis and one Jo: Caswell.

Dates: 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio B

Kalendar and astronomical tables, 1482

 Item
Identifier: MS 126
Scope and Contents

This volume contains calendars and astronomical tables. It is written in fair script by more than one hand. There are many diagrams and one pen drawing (16th century). The whole is heavily rubricated.


This manuscript is now part of the Western Medieval Manuscripts Collection. A detailed description is available HERE.

Dates: 1482
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection

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