Mathematics
Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:
Refer: ad Geom: Cartesianam, 1680
Thoughts on Descartes, written up in Rotterdam.
Scheda de Curva Catenaria sive Funicularia, 23 January 1697
Draft of a paper on the catenary curve which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for the month of August 1697. Applies Newtonian fluxions to a disputed concept of Jean Bernoulli's. Loose addendum 11a is the opening paragraph; leaf 11b is the calculations pertaining to Proposition 2, with Corollaries 5 and 6 on the reverse.
Slusi solutio Probl: quorundam in Lect: Barrowi ..., c1690
De Sluse's commentary on Barrow, copied out of a letter of 25 July 1670.
Slusius de equationum limitibus, c1690
Sluse on the limits of functions, penned in March of 1670.
Slusius de figuris cycloidicis, c1690
Sluse on cycloids.
Slusius de Probl: Alhazeni, c1690
Sluse, writing in 1672, on the work of 'Alhazen'.
Slusius de sectionum focis et Constructione Equationum per Curvas, s.d.
Notes on Sluse, and also Tchirnhausen, on graphing curved functions.
Solutio Probl: Astri Mercatoris, s.d.
A jotting on Mercator.
Summarium nostra Astronomiae Phys: et Geom:, c1690
One-page summary of Gregory's major textbook.
Systema Quadraticis Dinostrati et Nicomedis, 19 May 1696
A full-page diagram.