Mathematics
Found in 198 Collections and/or Records:
Explanation of Symbols, c1780-c1803
Volume contains manuscript notes on the symbology of mathematics and engineering, followed by miscellanea on dymanics ('wheel carriages' being a special topic). There are some minor diagrams, and some of the terms are glossed with Russian.
Extracta ex Journales des Scavans, after 1682
Notes on curves, taken "ex transact: philos: gallicis 1682".
Extrait de Manouvre des Vaisseaux ... sequuntur ... de Newtoni cogitatio, 1694
A jotting, dated 1694, about a book on how vessels turn (for Gregory was interested in how solids behaved in fluids), and diagrams on the catenary curve, annotated annoted by Gregory and by Newton, almost certainly during their five-day meeting in Cambridge in May of the same year.
Fluxions, c1780-c1808
Volume contains manuscript notes on the calculus.
Folio B, c1669-c1708
Folio C, c1680-c1708
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research, 1896-1979
Ichnographia ville prope Leidam ubi Des Cartes mansit, 1680
A ground plan of Descartes' house near Leyden. On the reverse is a Latin treatment of the relationship between religious faith and philosophical certitude.
In editione nova Philos: Newtoniana haec ab Auctore fient, May 1694
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.
Indefinita quadratura lunula Hippocratis, 1 August 1693
Gregory's notes on conversations with Fatio and his own brother James.