Mechanics
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Mechanics, Astronomy,, c1780-c1803
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.
Motion, Mechanics,, c1780-c1803
Volume contains manuscript notes on mechanics and the geometry of motion.
Outlines of Mechanical Philosophy (notes taken at lectures given by John Robison)
Heavily annotated Outlines of Mechanical Philosophy with inserts, bearing extensive manual revisions from as late as 1803.
Pneumatics, Gunpowder, c1780-c1802
Problema Staticum, c1684
Short notes and a pair of drawings in balance and in force along a string.
Quaedam Mechanica et statica ex Des Chales, 1680
A very early set of notes on Deschales' Cursus Mathematicus. Gregory used this work later for his own lectures on mechanics.
Space, Time, Motion, Stability, c1780-c1803
Volume contains manuscript notes on the geometry of motion and stasis; numerous diagrams attend.
Torricellii Prop: 8 de Motu Projectorum, 1684-1688
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).
Treatises, c1780-c1802
Illustrated print and manuscript treatises on the geometry of motion.