Mathematics
Subject
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Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:
Quadratura testudinis velifirmis Florentini in Phil. Trans., 1694
Item
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
Quadratura Tschurnhausii, s.d.
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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.
Quae de Craigii Methodo impressa dicenda sunt, 1696
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [201]
Scope and Contents
Gregory finds a mistake in Craige's handling of a theorem by Barrow.
Dates:
1696
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.
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
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.
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
Quaedam D.G.s Catenariam..., 1697
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [119]
Scope and Contents
Notes for an article on the the catenary curve, which eventually appeared in the Transactions.
Dates:
1697
Quaedam meam methodum Quadraturatum ..., not later than May 1693
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [33]
Scope and Contents
An algebraic discussion of quadrature, in a hand other than Gregory's (counter to the "meam" in his index title, the final word of which, is obscured by a wrinkle in the paper). The strips on the back are notes, in Gregory's hand, about finding a new French translation of the Olynthian orations of Demosthenes and various ancient mathematics texts. These notes Gregory indexed as his "Batavia" shopping list of May 1693, verbatim, GB 0237 David Gregory Dk.1.2.1 Quarto A [31], and a note about...
Dates:
not later than May 1693
Quarto A, c1680-c1708
Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A
Scope and Contents
The papers of David Gregory in Quarto A consist of:
107 manuscript papers and an index, relating to: theoretical physics, including optics, especially treatises on refraction and colour, on mechanics, specifically on velocity, gravitation, centrifugal and centripetal force, and the movement of solids through fluid, and an occasional thought on magnetic attraction. Applied physics, considering ships,...
Dates:
c1680-c1708