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Table des Refractions, 1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [89]
Scope and Contents

A refraction table for a 90-degree sweep of the heavens, at constant temperature.

Also a note of a meeting arrangement in Paris with colleagues.

Dates: 1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Tabula descendentium a Jacobo I. Angliae Regae, after 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [108]
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A note and genealogical table demonstrating that a letter published in 1694, allegedly the text of King Malcolm's cession of Scotland to Edward the Confessor, is a forgery.

Dates: after 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

The affair betwixt Abbe Galleie Dr Barrow and Mr Gregory, October 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [74]
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The case for absolving Barrow and James Gregory from the charges of plagiarism levelled in the French Memoirs de Mathematique et de Physique in April 1693. This contains a transmittal letter in English, addressed to Sir Robert Southwell, President of the Royal Society.

Dates: October 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

The proportions of weight of several bodys compared together..., 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [76]
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Notes from a conversation with Fatio.

Dates: 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Theorema Cyclometricum pro D. Aldrich..., 1695

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [105]
Scope and Contents

A theorem on the semi-circle for Henry Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church.

Dates: 1695
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Torricellii Prop: 8 de Motu Projectorum, 1684-1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [46]
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A study probably relating to part 4 of Gregory's mechanics lectures in Edinburgh. It discusses the theories of Evangelista Torricelli, famous for his " De motu gravium naturaliter descendentium et projectorum, (1644).

Dates: 1684-1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Tractata cum Hugenio - Hage Com. Maio 1693 (from index), 16 May 1693-18 May 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [8]
Scope and Contents Conversation notes pertaining to a meeting with Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands. Entry for 16 May 1693, following a jotted chapter citation (see note) and a squib about the glass used in microscopes, is an agenda for the discussion topics, which are to include foliate curves, Huygens' dioptrics (laws of refraction), compound 'astroscopes', gravitational theory of (his Oxford colleague from Switzerland,) Fatio de Duillier, a celestial-motion machine, a new pendulum for Huygens'...
Dates: 16 May 1693-18 May 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Tractata et Dicta Huddenis Amsterodami, Maio 1693, 27 May 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [9]
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Minute account of a day-long meeting with Jan Hudde in Amsterdam, covering things algebraic. Allusions to Gerardus Mercator's vindication about hyperbolics, and to foliate curves in general.

Dates: 27 May 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Tschirnausii methodus tangentium Act: Lips. 1682, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [68]
Scope and Contents

A note from the Acta, in a hand other (save for the title) than Gregory's.

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

Tschirnhausii methodus cujus ope infinita solida..., c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [30]
Scope and Contents

Tschirnhaus on circular solids.

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

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