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11 pages of notes on integrals, November 1935

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/B.28
Scope and Contents

11 pages of notes on integrals. These were sent with a covering note November 1935 by G. Cook, and originally tucked into notebook Coll-37/B.27.

Dates: November 1935
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

A Prognostication concerning the Frost by Monsieur Cassini the French King's Astrologer, 1697

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [30]
Scope and Contents

A scurrilous pamphlet probably directed, according to Gregory's marginalia, at Flamsteed, by one "Charles Bernard Chirurgein".

Dates: 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio B

A Theoreme Concerning Dice, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [49]
Scope and Contents

A jotting on game theory.

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

A treatise of chance written by Dr Arbuthnot anno 1694, 1694

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [19]
Scope and Contents

An English piece on probability, probably in John Arbuthnot's hand, with an earlier one-page transcription of a 1690 Acta Eruditorum piece in Gregory's hand.

Dates: 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio B

Ad Cartesis Specia ... sectionibus Coni, 1680

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [134]
Scope and Contents

Notes on Cartesian cone sections, written out during Gregory's stay in Rotterdam.

The item going before, also labelled 134, may actually be 133 (or part of it), which was supposed to have been a treatment by James Gregory on hyperbolae, nautical spirals, and other things. It treats of a hyperbola, at least. Its hand is not David's, but neither is it the hand of item C 136, in James' familiar hand.

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

Ad Jo: De Witt Elem: Curvarum, 1680

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [88]
Scope and Contents

A demonstratio on one of de Witt's notes on Schooten's 1659 Latin edition of Descartes' Geometria. Unrelated jottings on reverse are in a hand other than Gregory's.

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

Ad Pag. 23. Geom: Cartes: Notula, 1680

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [99]
Scope and Contents

A difficulty in Descartes, probably written up in Rotterdam.

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

Ad pag: 221. Newtoni Nota, May 1694

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [46]
Scope and Contents

Gregory's attempt to work out corollary 2 to Newton's proposition 91, from book 1 of the Principia, which compared the ratio of the attraction of a sphere to that of a spheroid, using the integration of the square root of a trinomial.

Dates: May 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Ad Philosophiam Neutoni Nota, 15 September 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [181]
Scope and Contents

For Gregory's Nota to Newton's Principia. One of several attempts (see C46, C60, and C63) to understand Newton's corollary 2 to proposition 91, book 1, which discovered the ratio of the attraction of a shpere to that of a spheroid, and involved the integration of the square root of a trinomial.

Dates: 15 September 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Adnotata et contenta quaedam in Actis Lipsicis, 1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [35]
Scope and Contents

A record of interesting articles in the Acta between about 1681 and 1692.

Dates: 1692
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

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