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Mathematics

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'Praelectiones Astronomicae' (excerpt), 07 June 1706

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [49.5]
Scope and Contents

A critique of the Keplerian ellipse from William Whiston's Praelectiones, (1707), which were also published in English in 1715 and 1728. Gregory's handwritten note at the bottom suggests that he or Sir Edmund Halley helped with corrections.

Dates: 07 June 1706
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Primo designatur..., 1680's

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [196]
Scope and Contents This enormous and varied tranche of material begins as preliminary work, 'Ordo Faciendorum' for the Exercitatio Geometrica, mentioning in particular the work of Canon Sluse, and broadens into a running record of Gregory's thoughts on quadrature, mostly, beginning with a page of 'Desiderata'. Curiosities intervene: a writeup, possibly in the hand of one Robert Morrison, of everything known about the plant substance Nicotine; two more broadsheet cuttings of the mathematical...
Dates: 1680's
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Probl: 13. lib. 3tii Diophanti, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [105]
Scope and Contents

A jotting on Diophantus.

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

Probl: Arith: C. Campbell, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [135]
Scope and Contents

Notes on parabolae from Colin Campbell 'of Ardhattan', possibly in his hand, and another page of commentary and calculation, possibly in the hand of James Gregory. There follow 3 more pages of scattered rumination on hyperbolae and ellipses in David's hand.

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

Probl: Cartesii de Quadrato a J.G., 24 December 1670

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [136]
Scope and Contents

Two pages of correspondence from James Gregory to John Collins.

Dates: 24 December 1670
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Probl: de Circulo, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [101]
Scope and Contents

A paragraph proposing a problem concerning the area and parts of a divided circle. This item is out of sequence, glued to the back of C 94.

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

Probl: impossibile de max: et min., c1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [7]
Scope and Contents

A quandary, attributed to no one, but on paleographic grounds probably coeval with item 5 in Folio C.

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

Probl: indeterminatus Arith: D. Ozonam, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [110]
Scope and Contents

An arithmetic proof. The 'D. Ozonam' may be Jacques Ozonam (1640-1717), famous for his 1693 "Méthode de lever les planes et les cartes..."

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

Probl: Vincentii Viviani, 2 August 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [100]
Scope and Contents

An unsuccessful attempt to prove Viviani's solution to the Florentine problem.

Dates: 2 August 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Problema Alhazeni, c1690

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [24]
Scope and Contents

Huygens's treatment of a problem by Alhazen, which appears to have been copied out at the same time as item 23 before.

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

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