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Mathematics

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Found in 198 Collections and/or Records:

Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio, 1700

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

An index, in Gregory's hand, to the material he designated as Folio C.

Dates: 1700
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Inventio Canonis quo facillime ex quaratico Tschurnhausii determinatur quadranda, c1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [209]
Scope and Contents

Gregory learns more quadrature from Tchirnhausen.

Dates: c1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Investigatio Curvae Celerrimi descensus, February 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [219]
Scope and Contents

Workpapers in which Gregory supposes that a solid's quickest line of descent through a curve is not the catenary or the cycloid, but the trochoid.

Dates: February 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Isaaci Newtoni tractatus de seriebus infinitis et convergentibus, c1685

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [56(1)]
Scope and Contents

Notes on Newton's 1671 tract on fluxions, copied out from John Craige. Their concluding section, on angular sections, is in English.

Dates: c1685
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Jac: Gregorii Methodus Depomendi aequationem. Cont: 4. fol., s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [146]
Scope and Contents

Gregory's writeup of two of his uncle's notions in algebra.

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

Jac: Gregorii Oratio ad Acad: Edinburg:, 1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [17]
Scope and Contents

Inaugural peech of David Gregory's brother James upon his accession to the mathematics chair at Edinburgh.

Dates: 1692
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio B

Jac: Gregorius De Maximis et Minimis, c1660-1675

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [150]
Scope and Contents

Thoughts on graphing certain functions, proceeding from earlier notes on Hudde. These are in the form of a letter (without address or name).

Dates: c1660-1675
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

James Gregory on mathematics, c1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [017]
Scope and Contents

An essay on mathematics and scientific enquiry by James Gregory, younger brother of David Gregory.

Dates: c1692
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Jo: Craig: specimen method: quadratura..., 1680's

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [199]
Scope and Contents

How John Craige dealt with a particular case of integration.

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

Jo: Craige supplementii ad suam Methodum, in Epist: Auct: ad Colin Campbellum, c1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [202]
Scope and Contents

Extract of a letter from Craige to Colin Campbell explaining a method of quadrature.

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

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