Mathematics
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
Tractata et Dicta Huddenis Amsterodami, Maio 1693, 27 May 1693
Minute account of a day-long meeting with Jan Hudde in Amsterdam, covering things algebraic. Allusions to Gerardus Mercator's vindication about hyperbolics, and to foliate curves in general.
Trigonometriae 5 Canones, et de Tabl: Logarithm:, before 1675
Trigonometric rules and series, generally derived by a Taylor expansion.
Trigonometriae Quinque Canones, s.d.
Five trigonometric canons by James Gregorie, David's uncle, written down by David Gregorie, David's father.
Tschirnausii methodus tangentium Act: Lips. 1682, s.d.
A note from the Acta, in a hand other (save for the title) than Gregory's.
Tschirnhausii methodus cujus ope infinita solida..., c1690
Tschirnhaus on circular solids.
University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development: buildings plans, 1951-1978
University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development: Maths / Physics Institute, 1965-1975
11 copy architectural plans (73cm x 111cm) for the Maths /Physics Institute at the University of Edinburgh King's Buildings. The plans are designed by the architects Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson and consist of a site plan, a grounds plan and floor plans all at 1/16" to 1' scale, and elevations and sections all 1/4" to 1' scale. .
untitled, c June 1706
This appears to go with item Coll-33/Quarto A [49.2] , "Querys to Sr Humphrey Mackworth", neither of which has an entry in Gregory's index. It is clearly an amortization problem, and bears a relation to the Equivalent and to calculations by a Mr H.
Varia Exempla particularia ... Nostr: Methodo, 1688-1707
Gregory considers his work in light of Craige's.
On the reverse of one sheet, dated 29 January 1707, Gregory notes some of the prophecies of the sect to which his colleague Fatio belonged.
Varia positiones ... in prob: Pappi, c1703
Latin and English notes on Pappus, probably in connection with his book project on the ancient geometers.
The third side of this item is unrelated, a copy of an 1707 letter from Gregory, Christopher Wren, Isaac Newton, and others, to Danish astronomer Olav Roemer, concerning the Astronomiae, and accuracy of certain calculations and observations by Flamsteed and Tycho Brahe. The Tycho ms. is probably the 1627 Tabulae Rudolphinae, translated by Kepler.