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Found in 215 Collections and/or Records:

Slusius de figuris cycloidicis, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [26]
Scope and Contents

Sluse on cycloids.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Slusius de Probl: Alhazeni, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [27]
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Sluse, writing in 1672, on the work of 'Alhazen'.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Slusius de sectionum focis et Constructione Equationum per Curvas, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [121]
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Notes on Sluse, and also Tchirnhausen, on graphing curved functions.

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

Solutio Probl: Astri Mercatoris, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [107]
Scope and Contents

A jotting on Mercator.

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

Student manuscript copy of Colin MacLaurin's Treatise of Algebra

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Identifier: Coll-1812
Content Description These are manuscript lecture notes on algebra... notes of 'A Treatise of Algebra' by Colin MacLaurin. Although the writer is unknown (a student?), the ms volume bears a label... an armorial Melville bookplate... possibly that of Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville.The volume is noted...: 'A Treatise of Algebra by Mr McLaurin Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh. part 1. 1735'.The last five pages are 'Concerning the Art of Measuring Land'....
Dates: 1735
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Summarium nostra Astronomiae Phys: et Geom:, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [56(2)]
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One-page summary of Gregory's major textbook.

Dates: c1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Systema Quadraticis Dinostrati et Nicomedis, 19 May 1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [104]
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A full-page diagram.

Dates: 19 May 1696
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Table des Refractions, 1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [89]
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A refraction table for a 90-degree sweep of the heavens, at constant temperature.

Also a note of a meeting arrangement in Paris with colleagues.

Dates: 1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Tabula descendentium a Jacobo I. Angliae Regae, after 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [108]
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A note and genealogical table demonstrating that a letter published in 1694, allegedly the text of King Malcolm's cession of Scotland to Edward the Confessor, is a forgery.

Dates: after 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

The affair betwixt Abbe Galleie Dr Barrow and Mr Gregory, October 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [74]
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The case for absolving Barrow and James Gregory from the charges of plagiarism levelled in the French Memoirs de Mathematique et de Physique in April 1693. This contains a transmittal letter in English, addressed to Sir Robert Southwell, President of the Royal Society.

Dates: October 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C