Mathematics
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
Summarium nostra Astronomiae Phys: et Geom:, c1690
One-page summary of Gregory's major textbook.
Systema Quadraticis Dinostrati et Nicomedis, 19 May 1696
A full-page diagram.
Table des Refractions, 1688
A refraction table for a 90-degree sweep of the heavens, at constant temperature.
Also a note of a meeting arrangement in Paris with colleagues.
Tabula descendentium a Jacobo I. Angliae Regae, after 1694
A note and genealogical table demonstrating that a letter published in 1694, allegedly the text of King Malcolm's cession of Scotland to Edward the Confessor, is a forgery.
The affair betwixt Abbe Galleie Dr Barrow and Mr Gregory, October 1694
The case for absolving Barrow and James Gregory from the charges of plagiarism levelled in the French Memoirs de Mathematique et de Physique in April 1693. This contains a transmittal letter in English, addressed to Sir Robert Southwell, President of the Royal Society.
The proportions of weight of several bodys compared together..., 1694
Notes from a conversation with Fatio.
The School of Epistemics, 1968-1975
- minutes, agendas and correspondence of the steering committee (1973-1975)
- records relating to the Interdisciplinary Theoretical Science Group (1970)
- records relating to the Mathematics Unit (1968-1971)
Theorema Cyclometricum pro D. Aldrich..., 1695
A theorem on the semi-circle for Henry Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church.
Torricellii Prop: 8 de Motu Projectorum, 1684-1688
A study probably relating to part 4 of Gregory's mechanics lectures in Edinburgh. It discusses the theories of Evangelista Torricelli, famous for his " De motu gravium naturaliter descendentium et projectorum, (1644).