Mathematics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
Libri hactenus desiderati, probably not before 1684
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [47]
Scope and Contents
A short list of partial titles Gregory wished at this moment to acquire. They are about mechanics, mostly, and optics. Thus they may well go with item Coll-33/Quarto A [46], on the reverse, at least generally, apparently part of his Edinburgh lecture notes about the same. In the lower right is a label referring to the reverse side: the document was once folded and stored that way.
Dates:
probably not before 1684
Libri quedam mathematici Amstel: 1693, 1693
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [27]
Scope and Contents
A scrawled list of partial book titles in David Gregory's hand and at least one other. On reverse is a line of text in Dutch, and possibly Gregory's signature. The smaller sheet is unlabelled, but appears to go with the larger one; its titles concern mostly gravity.
Dates:
1693
Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
Material relating to William Baird, being 'Some principles of Arithmetique'
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1236
Scope and Contents
The manuscript forming the collection looks at Some principles of arithmetique containing all the parts thereof and the severall ways of working. The manuscript includes three parts: mathematics, law and astronomy. The notes and the exlibris inscription suggest that this volume, which is bound in contemporary calf, was the work of William Baird of Dysart - 'Ex libris Gulielmi Baird'. The first part, titled 'Some principles of arithmetique...
Dates:
1676
Mathematical archive of Professor Alexander Craig Aitken
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1529
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of mathematical mansucripts and the corrected manuscript, and correspondence around, the publication Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman. It also contains off-prints and publications by Aitken, papers and correspondence relating to Aitken's work at Edinburgh University and letters to and from academics, family and friends, as well as letters of condolence addressed to Mrs. Aitken. There is also a quantity of...
Dates:
1910-1995
Mathematical Works by Edward Sang
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1001
Scope and Contents
The works of Edward Sang include 13 volumes of logarithms and 26 miscellaneous volumes on a variety of mathematical subjects including geometry and algebra, trigonometry, the theory of variables, driving belt calculations, and load-bearing calculations for the Forth Bridge. There is also a volume on The teeth of wheels.Evidence of Sang's surveying/civil engineering is shown in the plans of the policies of Mount Melville, 1818 (estate in Cameron,...
Dates:
before 1890
Memoranda et observata in Batavia 1693 Maio, 17 May 1693
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [31]
Scope and Contents
Batavia is a seventeenth-century cognomen for the Netherlands, to which David Gregory went in the spring of 1693, mostly to talk science with Christiaan Huygens. This document is a list of some books he wished to buy for himself and for friends back home, if he could find them. They covered Palladius, Thucydides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Erasmus, "all I can find of the Roman Authors at Amst[erdam]", and others. On the reverse is a list of topics he wished to discuss when he finally sat...
Dates:
17 May 1693
Memoranda pro Arch Pitcarnio et C. Oliphant, 1695
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [94]
Scope and Contents
A list of collegial favours to ask of Dr Gregory, presumably on his return home from Holland.
Dates:
1695
Methodus Halleiana inveniendi logarithmum, 1697
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [106]
Scope and Contents
Halley's method for finding logarithms. A pair of jottings in English as well.
Dates:
1697
Methodus Jacobi Fenton de Quadraturis, c1696
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [203]
Scope and Contents
Fenton on quadrature, with a passing reference to Tchirnhausen, in Gregory's hand.
Dates:
c1696