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Mathematics

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Libri hactenus desiderati, probably not before 1684

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [47]
Scope and Contents

A short list of partial titles Gregory wished at this moment to acquire. They are about mechanics, mostly, and optics. Thus they may well go with item Coll-33/Quarto A [46], on the reverse, at least generally, apparently part of his Edinburgh lecture notes about the same. In the lower right is a label referring to the reverse side: the document was once folded and stored that way.

Dates: probably not before 1684
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Libri quedam mathematici Amstel: 1693, 1693

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [27]
Scope and Contents

A scrawled list of partial book titles in David Gregory's hand and at least one other. On reverse is a line of text in Dutch, and possibly Gregory's signature. The smaller sheet is unlabelled, but appears to go with the larger one; its titles concern mostly gravity.

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

Memoranda et observata in Batavia 1693 Maio, 17 May 1693

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [31]
Scope and Contents Batavia is a seventeenth-century cognomen for the Netherlands, to which David Gregory went in the spring of 1693, mostly to talk science with Christiaan Huygens. This document is a list of some books he wished to buy for himself and for friends back home, if he could find them. They covered Palladius, Thucydides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Erasmus, "all I can find of the Roman Authors at Amst[erdam]", and others. On the reverse is a list of topics he wished to discuss when he finally sat...
Dates: 17 May 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Methodus Halleiana inveniendi logarithmum, 1697

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [106]
Scope and Contents

Halley's method for finding logarithms. A pair of jottings in English as well.

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

Methodus tangentium Slusii illustrata a Burchero de Volder, 1691

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [81]
Scope and Contents

An exposition of Sluse's general algorithm that allowed one to pass from an equation to its curve to its subtangent. Marginalia in Gregory's hand.

Dates: 1691
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Methodus universalis pro inveniendis tangentibus ... hyperbolarum et ellipsium, 2 November 1680

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [120]
Scope and Contents

A general proposition from Gregory's Edinburgh tenure.

Dates: 2 November 1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Minus percepta in Neutoni libro, 1695

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [58]
Scope and Contents

Corrigenda.

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

Mr Tschirnhaus de tangentibus, c1690

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [31]
Scope and Contents

Tschirnhaus on tangents.

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

Mr Tschirnhaus's Rules for Equations, c1690

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [29]
Scope and Contents

Tschirnhaus on algebra, in Gregory's hand.

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

Mr W. Campbel de Conclioide &c, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [185]
Scope and Contents

A letter, addressed to a clergyman named Mr William Campbell (to, not from, as Gregory's index note has it), in an unknown and difficult hand, possibly concerning cycloids.

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

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