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Mathematics

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:

De Elevando trinomio ad dignitatem indefinatam, 1686

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [210]
Scope and Contents

Gregory on elevating trinomials.

Dates: 1686

De focis sectionum in Cono investigendis, s.d.

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

Notes on conic sections.

Dates: s.d.

De gyratione Globorum de collisione mutua Probl: Halleianum 3, c January 1695

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [7]
Scope and Contents

Treatment of Sir Edmond Halley's method of finding the rotary motions produced in two spheres by an oblique impact. Appears to have been written in a hand other than David Gregory's, [Halley's?] though the title is clearly in his.

Dates: c January 1695

De Inveniendo Numero ... Divisores et residum, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [132]
Scope and Contents

A note on division, divided between two small sheets (both labelled as such).

Dates: s.d.

De Parabolarum..., s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [102]
Scope and Contents

A short discussion of parabolae.

Dates: s.d.

De problematibus arithmeticis et geometricis in generali consideratis et horum Historia, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [91]
Scope and Contents

A short treatise on some of the recent evolution in maths.

Dates: s.d.

De ratione studii mathematici consilium, 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [53]
Scope and Contents

Draft, not in Gregory's usual hand, of a paper written for the direction of students. Another copy, under this same title, is in Francis Pringle's notebook, Dc.6.12. Two others, under different titles, are in Folio C (see below), as number 112, and in fol. 85 of the Royal Society of London's MS 247.

Dates: 1693

De Spatio Hyperbolico infinito, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [131]
Scope and Contents

A note, flanked by two leaves full of calculations that may or may not be related to it, on the division into segments of hyperbolic curves.

Dates: s.d.

De Transmutatione Figurarum, c1688-1707

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [96]
Scope and Contents

A treatment by Craig(e) of transmutation of a particular curve into another.

Secondarily, there is a tabulation of the Measures of the Blood Vessells in Dogs by James Kyll MD at Oxford in 1699, and a Dr Robert Areskine's Measures of the Arterys (human? canine?). There is also a 1707 note about how the French form the chamber of their mortars, and a passing mention of a new proposal on quadrature just brought before the Royal Society.

Dates: c1688-1707

De ... usura, May 1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [82]
Scope and Contents

An exercise in interest calculation, with a note that the same results are to be had by logarithm. David Gregory incorrectly labelled this small sheet '81': to go with his index it must be item 82.

Dates: May 1690