Mathematics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
Quae de Craigii Methodo impressa dicenda sunt, 1696
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [201]
Scope and Contents
Gregory finds a mistake in Craige's handling of a theorem by Barrow.
Dates:
1696
Quaedam ad Lect: Geom Barrovii, s.d.
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [139]
Scope and Contents
Quibbles with the lectures of Isaac Barrow.
Dates:
s.d.
Quaedam de Geom: Cartesianum..., 1708
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [66]
Scope and Contents
Notes on Descartes, possibly concluding with a theorem concerning hyperbolic ellipses from 5 Sept. 1708.
Dates:
1708
Quaedam de Maximis et Minmis aliaque geometrica, s.d.
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [176]
Scope and Contents
Notes on geometric maximi and minimi.
Dates:
s.d.
Quaedam de Numerarum terminatione, c1684-1690
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [49.1]
Scope and Contents
A short treatment of quadrature and number series.
Dates:
c1684-1690
Quaedam D.G.s Catenariam..., 1697
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [119]
Scope and Contents
Notes for an article on the the catenary curve, which eventually appeared in the Transactions.
Dates:
1697
Quaedam meam methodum Quadraturatum ..., not later than May 1693
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [33]
Scope and Contents
An algebraic discussion of quadrature, in a hand other than Gregory's (counter to the "meam" in his index title, the final word of which, is obscured by a wrinkle in the paper). The strips on the back are notes, in Gregory's hand, about finding a new French translation of the Olynthian orations of Demosthenes and various ancient mathematics texts. These notes Gregory indexed as his "Batavia" shopping list of May 1693, verbatim, GB 0237 David Gregory Dk.1.2.1 Quarto A [31], and a note about...
Dates:
not later than May 1693
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
Querys to Sr Humphrey Mackworth June 1706, June 1706
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [49.2]
Scope and Contents
A list of questions about the manner of valuation of Welsh assets in light of political "Accession" to England. The precedents were doubtless of interest to Gregory, about to start intensive work on analogous Scottish issues in connection with the Act of Union, which came into force within a year. Calculating the customs and excise "Equivalent" compensatory payment was almost certainly the particular job before him here. Sir Humphry Mackworth (1657-1727) was a Shropshire politician and...
Dates:
June 1706
Quo ad D.G. spectant in Pitcarnii Probl. de inventoribus, after August 1688
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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