Astronomy
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Papers of David Gregory
Quarto A, c1680-c1708
Shelf list, s.d.
Part of what appears to be a shelf list of some library's holdings in astronomy.
Summarium nostra Astronomiae Phys: et Geom:, c1690
One-page summary of Gregory's major textbook.
Table of corrections, c1704
Corrigenda, probably for the Astronomiae.
Varia positiones ... in prob: Pappi, c1703
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.