Physics
Subject
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Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:
Experimentum de magnete percussio ..., 17 February 1695
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [86]
Scope and Contents
A paragraph about what happens when a magnet is struck, on the reverse of item 85.
Dates:
17 February 1695
Extrait de Manouvre des Vaisseaux ... sequuntur ... de Newtoni cogitatio, 1694
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [57]
Scope and Contents
A jotting, dated 1694, about a book on how vessels turn (for Gregory was interested in how solids behaved in fluids), and diagrams on the catenary curve, annotated annoted by Gregory and by Newton, almost certainly during their five-day meeting in Cambridge in May of the same year.
Dates:
1694
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 several...
Dates:
c1680-c1708
Geometriae de Motu Pars Quarta, 1686
Item
Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [15]
Scope and Contents
Part four of Gregory's public lecture on the geometry of motion, here concerning projectiles.
Dates:
1686
Geometriae de Motu Pars Quinta, 1687
Item
Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [16]
Scope and Contents
Part five of Gregory's public lecture on the geometry of motion, here concerning pendula.
Dates:
1687
Gravity, Measure of Forces, c1780-c1802
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/9
Scope and Contents
Notes in English, with occasional Russian headings, in basic physics like 'impulsion' and the measurement of forces. There are one or two mechanical sketches.
Dates:
c1780-c1802
Impulsion, Corpuscular Forces, c1780-c1802
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/6
Scope and Contents
Volume contains lectures in statics and fluid dynamics. Included is a note on what happens upon mixing particular chemicals. A few of the headings are in Russian.
Dates:
c1780-c1802
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
Introductions, c1804
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/2
Scope and Contents
Volume consists of drafts of numerous introductions for various kinds of lectures in 'natural philosophy'. They discuss the use of terms like 'causation' and 'laws', concerned less with scientific facts than with how to study science itself.
Dates:
c1804
Jo: Keil Scheda de figura Radij in Medio difformi, 1684-1700
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [30]
Scope and Contents
A logarithmic treatment of light propagating through a uniform medium. John Keill was an Edinburgh native who earned distinction under David Gregory in mathematics and natural philosophy there, and who followed him to Oxford in 1691, where, like Gregory, he made a name for himself as an enthusiastic vindicator of Sir Isaac Newton. At Balliol College he demonstrated by experiments the validity of some of the chief propositions of Newton concerning light and colour, among other things. Oddly,...
Dates:
1684-1700