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Geometry

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

Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Locus ad Circulum, 29 April 1680

 Item
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

 Item
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

Methodus Tangentium demonstrata ..., not later than 1691

 Item
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

Nota in Geom: Cartes:, c1693

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [63]
Scope and Contents

Notes on Cartesian geometry.

Dates: c1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Notae in tractatum ... Cubus et Sphaera ... duplicata, 1699

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [70]
Scope and Contents

Notes on a 1696 geometry article by one Joannes Ramon Coninkius (sic).

Dates: 1699
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Notata in Beaune de Constitutione Equ: Cub:, c1690

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [76]
Scope and Contents

Notes on the algebra of Cartesian geometry.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Probl: ... et theorema Hugeniarium ..., 1680's

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [127]
Scope and Contents

Notes on Huygens and Deschales.

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

Probl: Opt Const. inserviens per F.H.D.L., 15 May 1687

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [87]
Scope and Contents

A demonstratio in the geometry of optics from Gregory's Edinburgh days.

Dates: 15 May 1687
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Quadratura trianguli per infinitas series, 1684

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [73]
Scope and Contents

A note on quadrature of the triangle through infinite series. This was the subject of Gregory's first major publication.

Dates: 1684
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Quaedam de conisectionibus, c1680

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [70]
Scope and Contents

Undated notes on cone sections.

Dates: c1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

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