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Mathematics

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Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

Ichnographia ville prope Leidam ubi Des Cartes mansit, 1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [154]
Scope and Contents

A ground plan of Descartes' house near Leyden. On the reverse is a Latin treatment of the relationship between religious faith and philosophical certitude.

Dates: 1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

In editione nova Philos: Newtoniana haec ab Auctore fient, May 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [42]
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These are the things that Gregory was able to copy into his notes or his own copy of the Principia from those things which Newton had altered in his own copy. He proposed that these be published as a volume of Notae if not as a second edition.

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

Indefinita quadratura lunula Hippocratis, 1 August 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [64]
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Gregory's notes on conversations with Fatio and his own brother James.

Dates: 1 August 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio, 1700

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [index]
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An index, in Gregory's hand, to the material he designated as Folio C.

Dates: 1700
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Inventio Canonis quo facillime ex quaratico Tschurnhausii determinatur quadranda, c1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [209]
Scope and Contents

Gregory learns more quadrature from Tchirnhausen.

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

Investigatio Curvae Celerrimi descensus, February 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [219]
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Workpapers in which Gregory supposes that a solid's quickest line of descent through a curve is not the catenary or the cycloid, but the trochoid.

Dates: February 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Isaaci Newtoni tractatus de seriebus infinitis et convergentibus, c1685

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [56(1)]
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Notes on Newton's 1671 tract on fluxions, copied out from John Craige. Their concluding section, on angular sections, is in English.

Dates: c1685
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Jac: Gregorii Methodus Depomendi aequationem. Cont: 4. fol., s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [146]
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Gregory's writeup of two of his uncle's notions in algebra.

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

Jo: Craige supplementii ad suam Methodum, in Epist: Auct: ad Colin Campbellum, c1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [202]
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Extract of a letter from Craige to Colin Campbell explaining a method of quadrature.

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

Jo: Keil Scheda de figura Radij in Medio difformi, 1684-1700

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [30]
Scope and Contents A logarithmic treatment of light propagating through a uniform medium. John Keill was an Edinburgh native who earned distinction under David Gregory in mathematics and natural philosophy there, and who followed him to Oxford in 1691, where, like Gregory, he made a name for himself as an enthusiastic vindicator of Sir Isaac Newton. At Balliol College he demonstrated by experiments the validity of some of the chief propositions of Newton concerning light and colour, among other things. Oddly,...
Dates: 1684-1700
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

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