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Mechanics

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

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Mechanics, Astronomy,, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/28
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on general mechanics, and on pulleys and wedges in particular, and wheels and axles. There are subsidiary discussions of things like collision and the mechanics of muscular action. The astronomy notes promised on the book's spine describe how to manage the study of the heavens with big machines. Numerous small diagrams intersperse throughout the book. Some terms appear in Russian.

Dates: c1780-c1803

Motion, Mechanics,, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/23
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on mechanics and the geometry of motion.

Dates: c1780-c1803

Outlines of Mechanical Philosophy (notes taken at lectures given by John Robison)

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1370
Scope and Contents

Heavily annotated Outlines of Mechanical Philosophy with inserts, bearing extensive manual revisions from as late as 1803.

Dates: 1780-1803

Pneumatics, Gunpowder, c1780-c1802

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/8
Scope and Contents Notes, in English and occasional Russian, on the physics of air, principally pressure differentials and sound propagation. Topics include a lengthy discussion of the function and gross anatomy of the ear, barometrical measurement of height; published chart of comparative altitudes of famous mountain peaks, and the overall constitution of the atmosphere. The second half of the volume covers ballistics, mostly: diagrams, calculations, and records of artillery trials. A short, unrelated section...
Dates: c1780-c1802

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

Space, Time, Motion, Stability, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/16
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on the geometry of motion and stasis; numerous diagrams attend.

Dates: c1780-c1803

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

Treatises, c1780-c1802

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/7
Scope and Contents

Illustrated print and manuscript treatises on the geometry of motion.

Dates: c1780-c1802