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Mechanics

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

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Lectiones Mechanicae, sive Geometria de Motu, 1684

 Item
Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [12]
Scope and Contents

Gregory's notes for his public lectures in mechanics, Edinburgh, 1684.

Dates: 1684

Libri hactenus desiderati, probably not before 1684

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [47]
Scope and Contents

A short list of partial titles Gregory wished at this moment to acquire. They are about mechanics, mostly, and optics. Thus they may well go with item Coll-33/Quarto A [46], on the reverse, at least generally, apparently part of his Edinburgh lecture notes about the same. In the lower right is a label referring to the reverse side: the document was once folded and stored that way.

Dates: probably not before 1684

Problema Staticum, c1684

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

Short notes and a pair of drawings in balance and in force along a string.

Dates: c1684

Quaedam Mechanica et statica ex Des Chales, 1680

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [117]
Scope and Contents

A very early set of notes on Deschales' Cursus Mathematicus. Gregory used this work later for his own lectures on mechanics.

Dates: 1680

Torricellii Prop: 8 de Motu Projectorum, 1684-1688

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [46]
Scope and Contents

A study probably relating to part 4 of Gregory's mechanics lectures in Edinburgh. It discusses the theories of Evangelista Torricelli, famous for his " De motu gravium naturaliter descendentium et projectorum, (1644).

Dates: 1684-1688