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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

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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

Quadratura testudinis velifirmis Florentini in Phil. Trans., 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [97]
Scope and Contents Another of three drafts of a paper (see item C 67) to solve the famous problem of drawing in a hemispherical dome four apposing windows, so that, when these were removed, the remaining surface of the dome could be exactly measured. Glued to the last page is a small table of azimuths or elevations along the sea route from Leith to Dover and beyond, and a jotting of several partial book titles (by Byle, James Gregory, Apian, Snell, Kepler, and one other), and item C 101, for whose...
Dates: 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Quadratura Tschurnhausii, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [83]
Scope and Contents

An undated method of quadrature by 'Tschurnhaus', probably in the hand of David Gregory's father.

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

Quae de Craigii Methodo impressa dicenda sunt, 1696

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [201]
Scope and Contents

Gregory finds a mistake in Craige's handling of a theorem by Barrow.

Dates: 1696
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Quaedam ad Lect: Geom Barrovii, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [139]
Scope and Contents

Quibbles with the lectures of Isaac Barrow.

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

Quaedam de Geom: Cartesianum..., 1708

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [66]
Scope and Contents

Notes on Descartes, possibly concluding with a theorem concerning hyperbolic ellipses from 5 Sept. 1708.

Dates: 1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Quaedam de Maximis et Minmis aliaque geometrica, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [176]
Scope and Contents

Notes on geometric maximi and minimi.

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

Quaedam de Numerarum terminatione, c1684-1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [49.1]
Scope and Contents

A short treatment of quadrature and number series.

Dates: c1684-1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A