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Geometry

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

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

Geometria Practica in usum Academicorum Edinburgensium, 1685

 Item
Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [6]
Scope and Contents

Gregory's writeup of his Edinburgh course in practical geometry. On the back is a short piece of music, with words, written in an unknown hand.

Dates: 1685
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio B

Geometriae Propositiones Quaedam Generales, 1663-1675

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [16]
Scope and Contents

Some general theorems in geometry, with numerous diagrams.

Dates: 1663-1675
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Lectio habita in Schola Geometriae Oxoniae ... loco D. Jo: Wallisii, 10 July 1703

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [039]
Scope and Contents

A geometry lecture delivered by Gregory in place of John Wallis.

Dates: 10 July 1703
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Lectio ... Isaaci Barrow ... in Libros Archimedis, 1707

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [62]
Scope and Contents

Copy of an undated lecture of Dr Barrow concerning Archimedes' treatment of spheres and cylinders, a topic that would have interested Gregory as he continued his work on the ancient geometers.

The last page is taken up with what ended Gregory's academic work: an English copy of his 1707 charter to direct the Scottish Mint.

Dates: 1707
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Lectures by David Gregory

 Fonds — Volume Dc.6.12
Identifier: Coll-1608
Scope and Contents Volume consists of teaching material originally produced by David Gregory, here transcribed with numerous drawings by Francis Pringle in Oxford in 1694-1695 and George Wood in St Andrews 1705. The volume's index is in Gregory's hand. The lectures, all by Gregory, are the Institutiones Astronomiae, the Oxford address on professional education he called De Ratione Studii Mathematici Consilium, the Lectiones Opticae, Trigonometria Planorum Angulorum, Geometria Practica, Geometriae de Motu, and...
Dates: c1694-c1705
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Locus ad Circulum, 29 April 1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [124]
Scope and Contents

A proposition in geometry. The last four pages are out of sequence, coming between C 125 and C 126.

Dates: 29 April 1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Locus ad Rectam, 1680's

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [125]
Scope and Contents

A proposition in geometry.

Possibly unrelated is the second page, captioned only 'Probl. And Youngson', and bearing the date 5 August 1680.

Dates: 1680's
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Material relating to William Baird, being 'Some principles of Arithmetique'

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1236
Scope and Contents The manuscript forming the collection looks at Some principles of arithmetique containing all the parts thereof and the severall ways of working. The manuscript includes three parts: mathematics, law and astronomy. The notes and the exlibris inscription suggest that this volume, which is bound in contemporary calf, was the work of William Baird of Dysart - 'Ex libris Gulielmi Baird'. The first part, titled 'Some principles of arithmetique...
Dates: 1676
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Mathematical Works by Edward Sang

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1001
Scope and Contents The works of Edward Sang include 13 volumes of logarithms and 26 miscellaneous volumes on a variety of mathematical subjects including geometry and algebra, trigonometry, the theory of variables, driving belt calculations, and load-bearing calculations for the Forth Bridge. There is also a volume on The teeth of wheels.Evidence of Sang's surveying/civil engineering is shown in the plans of the policies of Mount Melville, 1818 (estate in Cameron,...
Dates: before 1890
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Methodus Tangentium demonstrata ..., not later than 1691

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [39]
Scope and Contents

Exposition, by Leiden mathematician Burchard de Volder (possibly in his hand), of René-François de Sluse's method of tangents.

Dates: not later than 1691
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

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