Mathematics
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Viviani Enigma Geometricum Demonstratum, 18 December 1693
One of the three drafts of a paper to solve the famous problem of drawing in a hemispherical dome four apposing windows, so that, when these were removed, the remaining surface of the dome could be exactly measured.
Wallis de Quadrat: Hyperbolae, 1702-1710
A paper of Dr Wallis's on quadrature and hyperbolae. A possibly unrelated jotting follows on a separate slip.
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- Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) 147
- Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (mathematician and astronomer) 24
- Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 15
- Tchirnhausen, Ehrenfried Walther Von, 1631 ? 1708 (German mathematician) 15
- Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 (Dutch mathematician) 12
- Pitcairne, Archibald, 1652-1713 (Scottish physician, amateur mathematician and poet) 11
- University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 11
- Hudde, Jan, 1628-1704 (Dutch mathematician) 10
- Sluse, 1622-1685 (Belgian mathematician) 10
- Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677 (mathematician, classicist, and divine) 9
- Craig, John, d. 1731 (Mathematician and prebendary of Salisbury) 9
- Duillier, Fatio de, 1664-1753 (Swiss mathematician) 9
- Wallis, John, 1616-1703 (professor of geometry, University of Oxford) 9
- Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650 (French mathematician) 8
- Schooten, Frans van, 1615-1660 (Dutch mathematician) 8
- Baillie, Anne, 1809-1847 (Former owner of manuscripts) 7
- Baillie, John Baillie, of Leys, 1835-1890 (donor of the Oriental Manuscripts Collection) 7
- Baillie, John, of Leys, 1772-1833 (Member of Parliament, and East India Company Official) 7
- Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) 6
- Collins, John, 1625-1683 (mathematician) 6
- Flamsteed, John (first Astronomer Royal) 6
- Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 6
- Halley, Sir Edmund, 1656-1742 (astronomer) 5
- Barrow, George, 1853-1932 (geologist) 4
- Euclid of Alexandria, 325-265 BC (Egyptian mathematician) 4
- Mercator, Nicholas, ?1620-1687 (called Kauffmann) 4
- Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 (Italian mathematician) 4
- Bernoulli, Jean, 1667-1748 (Swiss mathematician) 3
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 (natural philosopher and chemist) 3
- Cassini, Jean Dominique, 1625-1712 (Italian astronomer) 3
- Diophantus of Alexandria, c200-c284 (Greek mathematician) 3
- Fenton, James, fl1689 (Scottish mathematician) 3
- Gregorie, David, 1625-1720 (or David of Kinnairdie: father of David Gregory the mathematician) 3
- Gregory, James, 1666-1742 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, brother of David Gregory) 3
- Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 (German mathematician and astronomer) 3
- Lawley, Derrick, 1915-2012 (statistician) 3
- Ptolemy, Claudius, c85 -165 (Egyptian astronomer) 3
- Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 3
- Serenus, d c360 (Greek mathematician) 3
- Snell, Willebrord, 1591-1626 (called Snellius) 3
- Whiston, William, 1667-1752 (divine and natural philosopher) 3
- Young, John, fl1683 (Mathematics chair in Edinburgh University) 3
- Baker, Thomas, 1625?-1689 (ecclesiastic and amateur mathematician) 2
- Campbell, Colin, 1644-1726 (theologian and minister of Ardchattan, Argyllshire; correspondent with Newton) 2
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 (Polish astronomer) 2
- De Witt, Jan, 1625-1672 (Dutch statesman and mathematician) 2
- Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre (1907-1959) 2
- Hooke, Robert, (1635-1703) (Experimental physicist and professor of geometry, University of Oxford) 2
- Hôpital, Guillaume De l', 1661-1704 (French mathematician) 2
- Ibn al-Haytham, Alhazen, 965-1039 (Arab mathematician and physicist) 2
- Josephus, Flavius, 37-100? (Jewish historian in the house of Vespasian) 2
- Keill, John, 1671-1721 (mathematician and astronomer) 2
- LHopital, Guillaume, 1661-1704 (French mathematician) 2
- Ledermann, Walter (Mathematician) 2
- Leibniz, Gottfried Willhelm, 1646-1716 (German mathematician and philosopher) 2
- MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746 (mathematician) 2
- Mackworth, Sir Humphry, 1657-1727 (politician and mining capitalist) 2
- Mercator, Gerardus, 1512-1594 (mathematician and cartographer) 2
- Moray House College of Education (1959-1991) 2
- Pythagoras of Samos, c569 BC-c475 BC (Greek mathematician) 2
- Robison, John, 1739-1805 (professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Scottish Council for Research in Education (fl. 1928-2003) 2
- University of Oxford, Balliol College. Balliol College (1263-:) 2
- Viviani, Vincenzo, 1622-1703 (Florentine mathematician) 2
- Volder, Burchard De, 1643-1709 (Dutch mathematician) 2
- Aldrich, Henry, fl1995 (Dean of Christ Church, Oxford) 1
- American Institute of Mining Engineers (1871-:) 1
- Ames, Mary L, fl1904 (daughter of J Peter Lesley and cousin of Benjamin Smith Lyman) 1
- Ami, Henry Marc, 1858-1931 (Canadian scientist) 1
- Anderson, Adam, 1797-1853 (Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice) 1
- Anderson, James, 1758-1833 (Persian Interpretor, East India Company) 1
- Anderson, Robert, fl1668-1696 (mathematician and silk-weaver) 1
- Apollonius of Perga, 262-190 BC (Greek mathematician) 1
- Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735 (Scottish physician and satirist) 1
- Archimedes, of Syracuse, 287-212 BC (Sicillian mathematician) 1
- Armstrong College (University of Durham). Durham College of Science (1871 -) 1
- Baird, William, fl. 1670-1680 ('of Dysart') 1
- Bartlett, Frederic Charles, Sir, 1886-1969 (professor of experimental psychology) 1
- Bartlett, Maurice Stevenson, 1910-2002 (statistician) 1
- Bascom, Florence, 1862-1945 (American geologist) 1
- Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706 (French Philosopher) 1
- Becker, George Ferdinand, 1847-1919 (American geologist) 1
- Bell, Robert, 1841-1917 (Director of the Geological Survey of Canada) 1
- Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742 (clergyman, scholar and critic) 1
- Bernard, Edward, 1638-1696 (professor of astronomy, University of Oxford) 1
- Bernoulli, James, 1654-1705 (Swiss mathematician) 1
- Brook, Nathanael, fl1673 (English bookseller) 1
- Brown, James, fl1785 (Glasgow distiller) 1
- Buchanan, George, 1506-1582 (Scottish expatriate, historian and scholar, anti-absolutist and satyrist of clerical vice) 1
- Burt, Cyril Lodowic, Sir, 1883-1971 (educational psychologist) 1
- Busby, Richard, 1606-1695 (headmaster of Westminster School, London) 1
- Campbell, Colin, 1644-1726 1
- Carus, Titus Lucretius, c98 BC-55 BC (poet and philosopher) 1
- Cheyne, George, 1671-1743 (Scottish physician and amateur mathematician) 1
- Chrystal, George, 1851-1911 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Clark, William Bullock, 1860-1917 (American geologist) 1
- Clarke, John Mason, 1857-1925 (American geologist) 1
- Collins, John, 1625-1683, mathematician 1
- Craig (or Craige), John, d. 1731 (Mathematician and prebendary of Salisbury) 1
- Dary, Michael, fl1669 (Mathematician) 1 + ∧ less
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