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Excercises in geometry for Gregory's Edinburgh students.

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Extract of a volume (only partially cited) found by David Gregory in Amsterdam. He captions this "F: a. Schoten', suggesting that the work transcribed is that of geometer Frans van Schooten (1615-1660). The work concerns curves and quadratures, and is laced with comparisons to the work of Jan Hudde.

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An insertion 'ad Pag: 41' of Gregory's textbook 'Exercitatio geometrica de dimensione figurarum'.

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Rough notes, very likely composed at Rotterdam, on the Latin edition of Rene Descartes' Geometria, (1659), which was published by Schooten.

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The papers of David Gregory in Folio D consist of:

Scope and Contents The constitution of the Folio E papers of David Gregory follows: The documents' order is random, but the collection has several foci. One is David Gregory the academic's need for books. Numerous shopping lists for titles abroad reflect this, (one of which also includes a requirement for tea), as do inventories of other people's libraries nearer to home. Another focus in the collection is Gregory's public...

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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.

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

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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.

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...