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Optics

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Demonstratio regularum Huddonii..., 1708

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [65]
Scope and Contents

Several demonstrations of axioms derived by Hudde, in letter form, addressed to one M. Sauveur.

Also a record of a conversation with M. Fatio, fellow mathematician and confirmed religious fanatic.

Two unrelated pages follow, before item 66: a pair of printed leaves in optics.

Dates: 1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Descriptio Christalli Heddintomani, c17 May 1697

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [2]
Scope and Contents A note describing the structure and optical properties of a particular form of crystal, possibly that for which Haddington (Scotland) is known. This is dated from Oxford 17 May 1697. It is crowded to the right of the page by a large capital A, over which reads the citation, "La Theorie de la Manoeuvre des Vaisseaux. L'Example de la Manoeuvre des Vaisseaux de Monsr le Chevalier de Tourville". Beneath this is a note of an apparent eclipse of Mercury by the Sun (using Zodiac symbols) on 24...
Dates: c17 May 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Diagram by Newton, c1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [037]
Scope and Contents

A diagram of how light propagates serially through convex lenses.

Dates: c1692
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Elementa Catoptricae et Dioptricae, 1694

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Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [18]
Scope and Contents

An early (possibly first) draft of Gregory's famous textbook on reflection and refraction.

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

Elementa Catoptricae et Dioptricae ... impressa sunt anno 1695, 1695

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [18]
Scope and Contents

An incomplete second draft of Gregory's famous textbook on reflection and refraction. It is in the hand of an unknown amanuensis, with heavy alterations and additions in Gregory's hand.

Dates: 1695
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio B

Excerpta D.G. de Kepleri Dioptrica et contenta in illa, c1693

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [41]
Scope and Contents

A simple abstract of the contents of an uncited treatise of Johannes Kepler on dioptrics, or refraction.

Dates: c1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Excerpta et notanda in Kepleri ... ad vitellionem, c1693

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [38.1]
Scope and Contents

A discussion, probably inspired by Sir Isaac Newton, of whether it was Willebrord Snell or Voss who discovered a law of refraction first, from which Rene Descartes arguably derived his version at last.

Dates: c1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Excerpta quaedam Optica de Barrovie, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [98]
Scope and Contents

An undated excerpt of an optics treatment by Isaac Barrow. The hand is not known.

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

Foci Inventio in circulo reflectente per Meth: D.G., 1680's

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [113]
Scope and Contents

Notes on angles of incident in circular reflectors.

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

Folio B, c1669-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/Folio B
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: Most of the scientific content of Folio B comes from early in Gregory's career. It includes an index of later letters of John Collins (1625-1683) to James Gregorie (1638-1675), a number of Edinburgh lectures in geometry, mechanics, and optics, and some tables and manuscript pieces of 'Elementa Catoptricae et Dioptricae', the 'Institutes of Astronomy', and the...
Dates: c1669-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

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