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Optics

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

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Notata Math. Nov: 1702, November 1702

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [62(2)]
Scope and Contents

This small page appears to go with item 61(2), Newton's refraction table. 1702 was the year that the Astronomiae came out, by which time Gregory was also well under way with his ancient geometers project.

Dates: November 1702
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Optics, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/24
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on optics, with numerous diagrams and tables.

Dates: c1780-c1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

Optics, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/31
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on optics, with numerous diagrams and tables.

Dates: c1780-c1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

Optics, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/40
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on optics, with numerous diagrams and tables.

Dates: c1780-c1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

Papers of David Gregory

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-33
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: bound manuscripts of mathematical and personal papers by both David Gregory and James Gregory bound manuscripts Lectiones Mechanicae Sive Geometria de Motu parts 1-4 (1689-1690) bound manuscripts of treatises on mathematics and astronomy (1683-1694) bound manuscripts ...
Dates: 1652-1706
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Probl: ... et theorema Hugeniarium ..., 1680's

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [127]
Scope and Contents

Notes on Huygens and Deschales.

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

Probl: Opt Const. inserviens per F.H.D.L., 15 May 1687

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [87]
Scope and Contents

A demonstratio in the geometry of optics from Gregory's Edinburgh days.

Dates: 15 May 1687
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Quod ... in Aqueo humero ... videri, 1691

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [69]
Scope and Contents

A note on refraction inside the eye.

Dates: 1691
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

R.W. Annus Luni-solaris novus, 1694

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [115(267)]
Scope and Contents

An unlabelled list of things Gregory intended to change in his optics lectures. He was just sitting down to plan out his Elements of Catoptrics and Dioptrics.

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

Schedula de notandis in nostra optica edenda, c1695

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [26]
Scope and Contents

List of corrigenda for an unspecified work, almost certainly Catoptricae et Dioptricae Elementa, (1695), or the Edinburgh optics lectures from which this work proceeded.

Dates: c1695
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

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