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Astronomy

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Found in 101 Collections and/or Records:

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Kalendar and Astronomical Tables, late 15th century [1482?]

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Identifier: MS 126
Contents This manuscript was created in Scotland in the late 15th century, possibly around 1482 as that is the date of the Kalendar. The Kalendar is Cistercian, and the manuscript belonged to the Cistercian Priory of Coupar-Angus. After the Kalendar, which provides the important dates in the liturgical year, there are many charts and diagrams related to astrology.The contents are as follows:f. 1r: A Poem by Saint Bernard. It is titled ...
Dates: late 15th century [1482?]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Lecture Notes of John Robison

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-204
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes from the time when Robison was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. The notes embrace the sciences of mechanics, hydrodynamics, astronomy and optics, together with electricity and magnetism.

It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.

Dates: c1779-c1801
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lectures by David Gregory

 Fonds — Volume Dc.6.12
Identifier: Coll-1608
Scope and Contents Volume consists of teaching material originally produced by David Gregory, here transcribed with numerous drawings by Francis Pringle in Oxford in 1694-1695 and George Wood in St Andrews 1705. The volume's index is in Gregory's hand. The lectures, all by Gregory, are the Institutiones Astronomiae, the Oxford address on professional education he called De Ratione Studii Mathematici Consilium, the Lectiones Opticae, Trigonometria Planorum Angulorum, Geometria Practica, Geometriae de Motu, and...
Dates: c1694-c1705
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections