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Mathematics

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

An abstract of Schurnhaus Letter, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [28]
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An abstract of 1676 correspondence to a colleague from Tchurnhaus, on radicals in equations.

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

Apud Doctorem Ruyschium Amsterodami, 24 May 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [10]
Scope and Contents Notes from a paediatric anatomy demonstration, that appears to have dealt with certain birth defects. Followed by what appears to be a note about an actuarial problem concerning human senescence; several individuals who have worked on it are named, including Christiaan Huygens. Then follows a diagram of a machine designed by Jan Hudde for descrying a curve of changing slope. Last is a note about a conversation with Hudde about calculating dimensions and focal length of lenses in...
Dates: 24 May 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Brasseri Methodus inveniendi divisores numeri, 1690's

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [130]
Scope and Contents

The meaning of 'Brasseri' is not clear. A note on Hudde follows. This item is out of sequence: it comes before C 129.

Dates: 1690's
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Calculus in Act: Lipsia pro 1697..., 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [104]
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Calculations for a contribution in the Spring of 1697 to the "Acta Lipsia", probably the Leipzig periodical Acta Eruditorum.

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

Carulus Bovillus ... Cycloidem Noverat 1507, 9 November 1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [109]
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A page of reading notes from mathematics works from 1503-1509, edited it appears by one Charles Bovill. An inky thumbprint obscures one of the two diagrams on the page.

An algebraic proof, possibly unrelated, follows on a separate sheet.

Dates: 9 November 1696
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Catalogue of the Mathematical Works of the Learned Mr. Thomas Baker, c1683

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [11]
Scope and Contents 7 page printed catalogue of the mathematical works of Thomas Baker. According to David Gregory's own index this was "Printed by Mr Collins". John Collins was a well known register of scientific accomplishments and zealous correspondent with Gregory and his uncle James Gregory (the source of David's core maths collection). This catalogue was printed, with a proposal for producing all of Baker's works in full, under the aegis of the Royal Society, whose council approved the measure and agreed...
Dates: c1683
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Catalogus Librorum Novorum Mathem: in Gallijs 1693, c1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [29]
Scope and Contents List of partial titles in applied mathematics, mostly, in a hand other than David Gregory's-and one of them in Greek, not a language in which he was comfortable. 1693 was the year he made his last trip to the continent, visiting Flanders as new Savilian Professor. These varied titles consider things like the statics of exploding gunpowder and draining water, dioptrics, micromeasurement, catapults, and astrophysics. This bibliography may be part of a larger one, judging by "par le meme" in...
Dates: c1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Chartae 4. fol: de Nostra 2da Quadrandi Methodo, 1686

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [206]
Scope and Contents

A tranche of workpapers in which Gregory continues to labour on adapting Newton's method of quadrature. He continues to have trouble adapting the basic series, an indefinite integral, to the definite integral defined between O and x.

One paper among these was probably intended for the Astronomiae, showing a body moving in an ellipse.

Dates: 1686
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Commentarius in D.G. Quadrature: in D.P. Probl: de inventoribus, June 1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [198]
Scope and Contents

Gregory's further commentary on the problem laid out for him (and John Young) in 1688.

Dates: June 1692
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Conamen ad quadrandum trinomium, c1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [213]
Scope and Contents

A quadrature effort for trinomials.

Dates: c1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

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