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Neutons Investigatio Curvae Celerrimi descensus, 1 April 1700

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [122(2)]
Scope and Contents

Newton's full solution of the brachistochrone problem. The original of this photostat is in the Royal Society, as Gr MS 122.

Dates: 1 April 1700
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Nota ad pag: 221 Newtoni, May 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [60]
Scope and Contents

More tries to work out Newton's thoughts on the attraction of a spheroid.

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

Nota ad pag 221 Newtoni, May 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [63]
Scope and Contents

Yet more tries to work out Newton's thoughts on the attraction of a spheroid.

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

Nota ad pag: 468 Newtoni, May 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [61]
Scope and Contents

Gregory tries to work out how Newton's lemma 1 to book 3 in the Principia derives the ratio of forces acting on the earth and thence the precession of the equinoxes. He wonders if Newton, who in the interest of brevity disliked showing his work, knows a shorter way to do this.

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

Nota ... Hopitalii ... de ... eclipticis, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [84]
Scope and Contents

An undated lunula problem transcribed from de l'Hopital and appended to item 83.

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

Notae Quaedam in 3. Lib. Cartesii per D.G., c1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [101]
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A note on quadrature, part of Gregory's study of the Latin edition of Descartes' Geometria which Schooten brought out in 1659.

Dates: c1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Notanda D.J. phys. et math. Lond: Martio 1693 cum Fatio, 31 March 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [37]
Scope and Contents Notes to an extended conversation with Fatio de Duillier, fellow enthusiast of Newtonian science at Oxford, and especially important to Gregory between December 1691 and May 1694, when he was cut off from direct contact with Sir Isaac Newton, whom he had offended in a published commentary on his 'abrumpent' mathematical series. Topics include magnetic attraction, refraction and colour, and movement of solids through fluid, with anecdotal remarks by de Duiller about ships, tides, and the...
Dates: 31 March 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Notata in D: de Witt Loca plana et solida, 1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [2]
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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Notata Math. Nov: 1702, November 1702

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [62(2)]
Scope and Contents

This small page appears to go with item 61(2), Newton's refraction table. 1702 was the year that the Astronomiae came out, by which time Gregory was also well under way with his ancient geometers project.

Dates: November 1702
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Notata phys: et math: London ..., 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [78]
Scope and Contents

Notes on scientific matters, many of them discussed with Newton, such as why the brachistochrone curve is a cycloid and how a musical chord can have the figure of a catenaria, and a record of curiosities, such as the toads of Surinam, who breed their young on their backs, and floors that can be secured made with dovetails instead of nails.

Dates: 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

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