Optics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Supplementum Opticam Promotam, 1663-1675
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [15]
Scope and Contents
A supplement, in James Gregorie's hand, to his own "Optica Promota", which had appeared in 1663. He critiques Kepler's use of secants to measure refraction.
Dates:
1663-1675
Tabula refractionis Neutoniana, 26 June 1701
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [61(2)]
Scope and Contents
A refraction table supplied by Newton when Gregory, beginning his Astronomiae, asked for the precise index he assigned to each layer of the atmosphere. This table, written down on 26 June 1701, is the same as A61(2) in the Royal Society of London's Gregory MS 23.
Dates:
26 June 1701
Tides, c1780-c1803
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/33
Scope and Contents
Volume contains print and manuscript notes ostensibly on tides, but mostly on optics, with numerous diagrams and tables.
Dates:
c1780-c1803