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Mathematics

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 198 Collections and/or Records:

Or Ms 92: رسالهٔ ارثماطیقی (یعنی خواص اعداد) Risālah-i irs̲māṭīqī (ya'nī khavāṣ-i a'dād), undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 92
Scope and Contents

This is only the third fann, or part, of apparently a large work on arithmetic. The author's name is not given. In its present form it treats with that branch of the Theory of Numbers which is called Zawju al-Zawj), it is illustrated by numerous tables.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 259: رساله درعلمِ وفق Risālah dar ‘ilm-i vafq, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 259
Scope and Contents

This is the fourth maqālah (chapter) from a longer work on the theory of numbers in five chapters (see A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) for further details.


This manuscript includes many tables.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 392: تحریر اقلیدس Taḥrīr Uqlīdus, 902 A.H., 1496 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 392
Scope and Contents This is a much more complete work of Euclid than the Greek text that has come down to us. It was translated into Arabic (from Greek) by the famous philosopher and astronomer Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) b. Imām Fakhr al-Dīn, and was brought to Spain by the Arabs, thence a knowledge of its contents was diffused throughout Europe long before the Greek original was discovered. In this work Naṣīr al-Dīn proves most of the propositions, sometimes in two, three, and four...
Dates: 902 A.H.; 1496 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 396: تحریر المجستي Taḥrīr al-Mijistī, 1011 A.H., 1602 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 396
Scope and Contents

A slightly defective copy of Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) edition of the Arabic version of Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy (c.100–170 C.E.), a 2nd-century Greek-language treatise on mathematics and astronomy concerning the planetary paths and motions of the stars.


The present copy contains many astronomical tables and diagrams; headings in red; an innumerable amount of glosses on the margin.

Dates: 1011 A.H.; 1602 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 397: تحریر المجستي Taḥrīr al-Mijistī, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 397
Scope and Contents A defective copy of Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) edition of the Arabic version of Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 – 170 C.E.), a 2nd-century Greek-language treatise on mathematics and astronomy concerning the planetary paths and motions of the stars.In the present copy the tables are left blank. Of the 13 articles, or sections of the work, only six are marked here. This may be due to a lacuna. The first eight...
Dates: undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Or Ms 474: Mathematical Exercises, unpaginated [Please click twice to access a higher quality photograph]
Or Ms 474: Mathematical Exercises, unpagin...

Or Ms 474: Jagat-kautuk Kalpavali (The Wishfulfillment Vine of World-curiosities) Sanskrit Mathematical Exercises, c.1821 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 474
Scope and Contents This is a printed compendium of mathematical puzzles in Sanskrit with monochrome illustrations. The title is given on the cover as "Juggut Coutook, Culpwallee." The format of the book is modelled on the metaphorical idea of kalpavali, the divine creeper in Sanskrit literature, that is associated with wish fulfillment.There are large blank areas on each page, most of which have been filled in with neatly handwritten English translations,...
Dates: c.1821 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Oratio de Mundi systemate contra Cartesiones, 1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [189]
Scope and Contents

Graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one John Falconer. This young man may have been related to the Falconer who secured Lord Tarbat's interest for Gregory over the dreaded Visitation.

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

Oratio de Quadr: Lunale Hypocratis, 1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [190]
Scope and Contents

Graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one Laurence Oliphant. This young man may have been Gregory's future brother-in-law.

The subject is Hyppocrates' lunula. Two documents on the same subject come before this, no doubt as supporting notes. One is the draft of a letter from Gregory to Wallis, referring to a 1687 article by Tchirnhausen in the Leipzig Acta, the other, a transcript of that article.

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

Ordo in Mathes. docenda..., 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [68]
Scope and Contents

An address in Balliol College about how mathematics should be taught.

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

Pars Probl: veterum, 28 August 1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [96]
Scope and Contents

Gregory's solution to a very ancient problem about parabolae and their asymtotes.

Dates: 28 August 1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

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