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Geometry

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:

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

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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

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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

Papers of William Wallace, Professor of Mathematics

 Fonds — Bundle Dk.3.40
Identifier: Coll-2177
Scope and Contents

Mathematical notebook containing a system of spherical trigonometry, geometrical problem, etc. by Professor William Wallace. 1790s-1800s. Accompanied by a red, thin volume, containing Wallace's own notes, and letters. Paper watermark 1819. In the volume are loosely inserted, a paper on the separation of the symbols of quantity and operation, and a letter of Prof. Wallace to engineer Thomas Drummond, 30 May 1830.

Dates: 1790s-1830
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Reductio de De Witt, c1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [71]
Scope and Contents

Undated notes on De Witt.

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

Roman inscriptions, 1698

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [74]
Scope and Contents

Roman epigraphy in Scotland and Rome, dating from the reigns of Antoninus Pius and Claudius.

Dates: 1698
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A