Mathematics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Chartae 4. fol: de Nostra 2da Quadrandi Methodo, 1686
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [206]
Scope and Contents
A tranche of workpapers in which Gregory continues to labour on adapting Newton's method of quadrature. He continues to have trouble adapting the basic series, an indefinite integral, to the definite integral defined between O and x.
One paper among these was probably intended for the Astronomiae, showing a body moving in an ellipse.
Dates:
1686
Commentarius in D.G. Quadrature: in D.P. Probl: de inventoribus, June 1692
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [198]
Scope and Contents
Gregory's further commentary on the problem laid out for him (and John Young) in 1688.
Dates:
June 1692
Curva Cragio exhibitur, July 1687
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [205]
Scope and Contents
Gregory, probably with Pitcairne at his side, sent these curves to Craige in Cambridge, challenging him to find their quadrature. Thus the writing that is not in Gregory's hand may be Craige's.
Dates:
July 1687
Folio C, c1680-c1708
Series — Volume Dc.1.61: Series Coll-33/Folio C
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C
Scope and Contents
The papers of David Gregory consist of:
These are mostly handwritten items, bound together as a volume, though with some loose insertions of manuscripts which had strayed, some of them with modern annotations concerning their provenance. Their scope and content is as David Gregory indexed them, save for the missing items, which consist of two dozen papers and letters on general physics and maths, and...
Dates:
c1680-c1708
Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio, 1700
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [index]
Scope and Contents
An index, in Gregory's hand, to the material he designated as Folio C.
Dates:
1700
Primo designatur..., 1680's
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [196]
Scope and Contents
This enormous and varied tranche of material begins as preliminary work, 'Ordo Faciendorum' for the Exercitatio Geometrica, mentioning in particular the work of Canon Sluse, and broadens into a running record of Gregory's thoughts on quadrature, mostly, beginning with a page of 'Desiderata'. Curiosities intervene: a writeup, possibly in the hand of one Robert Morrison, of everything known about the plant substance Nicotine; two more broadsheet cuttings of the mathematical...
Dates:
1680's
Quarto A, c1680-c1708
Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A
Scope and Contents
The papers of David Gregory in Quarto A consist of:
107 manuscript papers and an index, relating to: theoretical physics, including optics, especially treatises on refraction and colour, on mechanics, specifically on velocity, gravitation, centrifugal and centripetal force, and the movement of solids through fluid, and an occasional thought on magnetic attraction. Applied physics, considering ships,...
Dates:
c1680-c1708
Quo ad D.G. spectant in Pitcarnii Probl. de inventoribus, after August 1688
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [42]
Scope and Contents
Commentary on Archibald Pitcairne's Edinburgh edition of Solutio Problematis de Historicis; seu de Inventoribus Dissertatio, (1688) of which an enlarged edition appeared at Leiden in 1693. This tract made Pitcairne's subsequent medical career on the continent for its vindication of the claims of William Harvey to the discovery of the circulation of the blood. It contains other things as well, notably the first public presentation of Gregory's second method of...
Dates:
after August 1688