Mathematics
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
Ichnographia ville prope Leidam ubi Des Cartes mansit, 1680
A ground plan of Descartes' house near Leyden. On the reverse is a Latin treatment of the relationship between religious faith and philosophical certitude.
In editione nova Philos: Newtoniana haec ab Auctore fient, May 1694
These are the things that Gregory was able to copy into his notes or his own copy of the Principia from those things which Newton had altered in his own copy. He proposed that these be published as a volume of Notae if not as a second edition.
Indefinita quadratura lunula Hippocratis, 1 August 1693
Gregory's notes on conversations with Fatio and his own brother James.
Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio, 1700
An index, in Gregory's hand, to the material he designated as Folio C.
Inventio Canonis quo facillime ex quaratico Tschurnhausii determinatur quadranda, c1688
Gregory learns more quadrature from Tchirnhausen.
Investigatio Curvae Celerrimi descensus, February 1697
Workpapers in which Gregory supposes that a solid's quickest line of descent through a curve is not the catenary or the cycloid, but the trochoid.
Isaaci Newtoni tractatus de seriebus infinitis et convergentibus, c1685
Notes on Newton's 1671 tract on fluxions, copied out from John Craige. Their concluding section, on angular sections, is in English.
Jac: Gregorii Methodus Depomendi aequationem. Cont: 4. fol., s.d.
Gregory's writeup of two of his uncle's notions in algebra.
Jac: Gregorii Oratio ad Acad: Edinburg:, 1692
Inaugural peech of David Gregory's brother James upon his accession to the mathematics chair at Edinburgh.
Jac: Gregorius De Maximis et Minimis, c1660-1675
Thoughts on graphing certain functions, proceeding from earlier notes on Hudde. These are in the form of a letter (without address or name).