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

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Dr Oliphants Solution of Mr Boyles Probl: about the specifick Gravity of bodys, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [94]
Scope and Contents

A basic problem in physics. The hand may not be Gregory's. ' Dr Oliphant' may be Charles Oliphant, disputant in a furore over an anonymous tract lampooning Archibald Pitcairne in 1695, or perhaps David Oliphant, librarian to Glasgow University 1691-1671. Item 94 in Quarto A happens to be titled, 'Memoranda pro Arch Pitcarnio et C. Oliphant'. See also unlabelled page between C 100 and C 102 (which is not C 101--that being out of sequence, glued to the back of C 97).

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

Dubitationes de Actu 1692, 1692-1694

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [80]
Scope and Contents

A page of what appears to be Gregory's thoughts on the legality of his interrogation pursuant to (possibly) the 1690 Act for the Visitation of Universities. On the reverse is a 1694 jotting on pitches and chords in pipes of particular dimensions.

Dates: 1692-1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Expense list and reading notes, 1694

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [061]
Scope and Contents

General notes in planetary physics, in Gregory's hand, with a month's expenses list, probably not in his hand.

Dates: 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

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

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

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

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

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

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

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