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Mathematics

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Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:

Indefinita quadratura lunula Hippocratis, 1 August 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [64]
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Gregory's notes on conversations with Fatio and his own brother James.

Dates: 1 August 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

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

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [index]
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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]
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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]
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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)]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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
Or Ms 474: Mathematical Exercises, unpaginated [Please click twice to access a higher quality photograph]
Or Ms 474: Mathematical Exercises, unpagin...

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

James Gregory on mathematics, c1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [017]
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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