Calculus
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Fluxions, c1780-c1808
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/20
Scope and Contents
Volume contains manuscript notes on the calculus.
Dates:
c1780-c1808
Scheda D.G. de rotatione globi de percussione orta, 12 February 1695
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [25]
Scope and Contents
David Gregory's solution to Sir Edmund Halley's problem, proposed during Gregory's composition of the "Tract on Fluxions", of finding the rotary motion in a sphere struck by another sphere. (Halley's solution is in Coll-33/Quarto A [7].) It is built on some basic lemmas and includes a reference (possibly after the date given) to proposition 40 of the "Tract on Fluxions".
Dates:
12 February 1695