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Mathematics

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

Probl: 13. lib. 3tii Diophanti, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [105]
Scope and Contents

A jotting on Diophantus.

Dates: s.d.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Probl: impossibile de max: et min., c1696

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [7]
Scope and Contents

A quandary, attributed to no one, but on paleographic grounds probably coeval with item 5 in Folio C.

Dates: c1696
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Probl: indeterminatus Arith: D. Ozonam, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [110]
Scope and Contents

An arithmetic proof. The 'D. Ozonam' may be Jacques Ozonam (1640-1717), famous for his 1693 "Méthode de lever les planes et les cartes..."

Dates: s.d.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Probl: Vincentii Viviani, 2 August 1693

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [100]
Scope and Contents

An unsuccessful attempt to prove Viviani's solution to the Florentine problem.

Dates: 2 August 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Problema Alhazeni, c1690

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [24]
Scope and Contents

Huygens's treatment of a problem by Alhazen, which appears to have been copied out at the same time as item 23 before.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Prop D.G. de Figura radii in medio diformi protractatus, 28 Dec. 1697

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [100]
Scope and Contents

An abortive attempt by Gregory to show that atmospheric refraction bends a light ray into the form of a cycloid, the curve of quickest descent.

Dates: 28 Dec. 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Propositiones Quaedam de Ludo Aleae ..., s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [22]
Scope and Contents

Propositions from Huygens on dicing and games of chance generally. (He may mean 'tessella' where he refers to 'tessera', or perhaps he refers to dominoes.)

Dates: s.d.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Quadratura curva in l=dx(n-1), 8 June 1688

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [197]
Scope and Contents

In which Gregory refines the integration technique he had developed in the Exercitatio.

Dates: 8 June 1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Quadratura testudinis velifirmis Florentini in Phil. Trans., 1694

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [97]
Scope and Contents Another of three drafts of a paper (see item C 67) 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. Glued to the last page is a small table of azimuths or elevations along the sea route from Leith to Dover and beyond, and a jotting of several partial book titles (by Byle, James Gregory, Apian, Snell, Kepler, and one other), and item C 101, for whose...
Dates: 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Quae de Craigii Methodo impressa dicenda sunt, 1696

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [201]
Scope and Contents

Gregory finds a mistake in Craige's handling of a theorem by Barrow.

Dates: 1696
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

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