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Mathematics

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Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:

Probl: de Circulo, s.d.

 Item
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

 Item
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

 Item
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

Problemata Proposita J. Young a D. Pitcairne, 1683-1687

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [187]
Scope and Contents

Broadsheet excerpts of the problem and condemnation in the joust between Archibald Pitcairne and John Young, which lost the latter his mathematics chair at Edinburgh. There follows a rumination, perhaps in Pitcairne's hand or perhaps Gregory's, on scientific education.

Dates: 1683-1687
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Prop D.G. de Figura radii in medio diformi protractatus, 28 Dec. 1697

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [100]
Scope and Contents

An abortive attempt by Gregory to show that atmospheric refraction bends a light ray into the form of a cycloid, the curve of quickest descent.

Dates: 28 Dec. 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Propositiones D.A. Pitcairnei, c1692

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [92]
Scope and Contents

4 scraps, the first three in Archibald Pitcairne's hand, containing scrawled thoughts on one or two geometric processions, and numerous fragments of book titles, names, and addresses, apparently all relating to Gregory's time in Holland. These may be all that is left of item 92.

Dates: c1692
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Propositiones Quaedam de Ludo Aleae ..., s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [22]
Scope and Contents

Propositions from Huygens on dicing and games of chance generally. (He may mean 'tessella' where he refers to 'tessera', or perhaps he refers to dominoes.)

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

Quadratura curva in l=dx(n-1), 8 June 1688

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [197]
Scope and Contents

In which Gregory refines the integration technique he had developed in the Exercitatio.

Dates: 8 June 1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C