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Mathematics

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Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

D.T. Nova methodus determinandi Maxima et Minima, c1690

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [32]
Scope and Contents

Hand-copy of an article (Act. Eruditorum Lipsiae, Mar. 1683) by Tschirnhaus, on maxima and minima. The hand may not be Gregory's.

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

Ejusdem Marchionis Inventis solidi cui minime..., after 1699

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [123(2)]
Scope and Contents

Notes on de l'Hôpital's analysis of curved solids.

Dates: after 1699
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Epist ad D. Hugenium..., 10 September 1693

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [180]
Scope and Contents

Draft of a letter to Christiaan Huygens, in which Gregory follows up on his promise in Holland to send along his 'second method' of quadrature in detail.

Dates: 10 September 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Epistola de quadraturis Dav: Gre: ad Wallisium missa et vol: alt: impressa, 1 July 1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [73]
Scope and Contents

Draft of a letter (final version dated 21 July) to John Wallis, who wished to include Gregory's 'second method' of quadrature in the 1693 revision of his 'Algebra'.

Dates: 1 July 1692
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Ex Tschurnhausii Theoremate et Methodo Deducitur Canon meus, 1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [207]
Scope and Contents

A 11-page tranche of workpapers in which Gregory derives his own conclusions from the work of Tchirnhausen.

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

Excerpta de Codico M.S. Henratii communicata a [illegible], 27 May 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [19]
Scope and Contents

Extract of a volume (only partially cited) found by David Gregory in Amsterdam. He captions this "F: a. Schoten', suggesting that the work transcribed is that of geometer Frans van Schooten (1615-1660). The work concerns curves and quadratures, and is laced with comparisons to the work of Jan Hudde.

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

Extracta ex Journales des Scavans, after 1682

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [111]
Scope and Contents

Notes on curves, taken "ex transact: philos: gallicis 1682".

Dates: after 1682
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Extrait de Manouvre des Vaisseaux ... sequuntur ... de Newtoni cogitatio, 1694

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [57]
Scope and Contents

A jotting, dated 1694, about a book on how vessels turn (for Gregory was interested in how solids behaved in fluids), and diagrams on the catenary curve, annotated annoted by Gregory and by Newton, almost certainly during their five-day meeting in Cambridge in May of the same year.

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

Folio B, c1669-c1708

 Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: Most of the scientific content of Folio B comes from early in Gregory's career. It includes an index of later letters of John Collins (1625-1683) to James Gregorie (1638-1675), a number of Edinburgh lectures in geometry, mechanics, and optics, and some tables and manuscript pieces of 'Elementa Catoptricae et Dioptricae', the 'Institutes of Astronomy', and the...
Dates: c1669-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

Folio C, c1680-c1708

 Series — Volume Dc.1.61: Series Coll-33/Folio C
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: These are mostly handwritten items, bound together as a volume, though with some loose insertions of manuscripts which had strayed, some of them with modern annotations concerning their provenance. Their scope and content is as David Gregory indexed them, save for the missing items, which consist of two dozen papers and letters on general physics and maths, and...
Dates: c1680-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

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