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Physics

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

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Machinae, Hydrostaticae, et hydraulicae et Barascopium Hugen:, December 1680

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [157]
Scope and Contents

Novelties seen and sketched by Gregory in Paris. The hydraulic machine caused a doll to fly inside a bottle.

Dates: December 1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Notata phys: et math: London ..., 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [78]
Scope and Contents

Notes on scientific matters, many of them discussed with Newton, such as why the brachistochrone curve is a cycloid and how a musical chord can have the figure of a catenaria, and a record of curiosities, such as the toads of Surinam, who breed their young on their backs, and floors that can be secured made with dovetails instead of nails.

Dates: 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Notata phys: et math: London ..., 1698-1705

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [80]
Scope and Contents

Almost certainly a latter part of Gregory's item 80: 'Notata Phys: et Math: D.G. Lond: 25 June &c 1698'. This covers cone sections, elements of Euclid, errata in a Halley treatment of comets in his own Apollonius project, and a jotting on Scottish history bibliography.

Dates: 1698-1705
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Quarto A, c1680-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/Quarto A
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory in Quarto A consist of: 107 manuscript papers and an index, relating to: theoretical physics, including optics, especially treatises on refraction and colour, on mechanics, specifically on velocity, gravitation, centrifugal and centripetal force, and the movement of solids through fluid, and an occasional thought on magnetic attraction. Applied physics, considering ships,...
Dates: c1680-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

Serenissimo Principo ac Domino Georgio ... Daniae, 1702

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [056]
Scope and Contents

A draft dedication of Elementa Physicae et Geometricae to its patron, George, Prince of Denmark.

Dates: 1702
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Summarium nostra Astronomiae Phys: et Geom:, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [56(2)]
Scope and Contents

One-page summary of Gregory's major textbook.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Table des Refractions, 1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [89]
Scope and Contents

A refraction table for a 90-degree sweep of the heavens, at constant temperature.

Also a note of a meeting arrangement in Paris with colleagues.

Dates: 1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

The proportions of weight of several bodys compared together..., s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [75]
Scope and Contents

A specific gravity table.

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

The proportions of weight of several bodys compared together..., 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [76]
Scope and Contents

Notes from a conversation with Fatio.

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

Tractata cum Hugenio - Hage Com. Maio 1693 (from index), 16 May 1693-18 May 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [8]
Scope and Contents Conversation notes pertaining to a meeting with Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands. Entry for 16 May 1693, following a jotted chapter citation (see note) and a squib about the glass used in microscopes, is an agenda for the discussion topics, which are to include foliate curves, Huygens' dioptrics (laws of refraction), compound 'astroscopes', gravitational theory of (his Oxford colleague from Switzerland,) Fatio de Duillier, a celestial-motion machine, a new pendulum for Huygens'...
Dates: 16 May 1693-18 May 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

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