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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Supplementum Opticam Promotam, 1663-1675

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

Tabula refractionis Neutoniana, 26 June 1701

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

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

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