Mathematics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Notata in D: de Witt Loca plana et solida, 1696
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [2]
Scope and Contents
12 pages of commentary on De Witt's notes in Schooten's 1659 edition of Descarted. The last page appears to have been bound out of sequence; part of this document was inadvertently misnumbered by Gregory as item 3.
Dates:
1696
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