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Mathematics

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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

Large ledger-type notebook, c. 1936

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.27
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Large ledger-type notebook. The notebook contains notes on mathematics, some labelled 'Lecture II', etc., perhaps for lectures at Cambridge, c. 1936.

Dates: c. 1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Professor George Chrystal, 17 June 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/61
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Chrystal outlines some ideas for subjects that could be taught in the proposed mathematical department at Edinburgh University, and how many professors, lecturers and assistants he might recommend.

Dates: 17 June 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from [H. B. W], 31 January 1921

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1993
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Letter, 31 January 1921, [H. B. W] to Donald Tovey. Discussing teaching of a young boy in maths and music. Holograph signed.

Dates: 31 January 1921
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Libnitii dimensio circuli ... M.S., s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [81]
Scope and Contents

An English transcript of a Leibniz article in the Acta Eruditorum (no. 11) concerning quadrature.

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

Libnitus De Maximis et Minimis, et Tangentibus, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [91]
Scope and Contents

A new way of reaching maxima and minima and tangents ascribed to Leibniz; hand unknown.

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

Libri hactenus desiderati, probably not before 1684

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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

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [27]
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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

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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

Memoranda pro Arch Pitcarnio et C. Oliphant, 1695

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [94]
Scope and Contents

A list of collegial favours to ask of Dr Gregory, presumably on his return home from Holland.

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

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