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Querys to Sr Humphrey Mackworth June 1706, June 1706

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [49.2]
Scope and Contents A list of questions about the manner of valuation of Welsh assets in light of political "Accession" to England. The precedents were doubtless of interest to Gregory, about to start intensive work on analogous Scottish issues in connection with the Act of Union, which came into force within a year. Calculating the customs and excise "Equivalent" compensatory payment was almost certainly the particular job before him here. Sir Humphry Mackworth (1657-1727) was a Shropshire politician and...
Dates: June 1706
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Quo ad D.G. spectant in Pitcarnii Probl. de inventoribus, after August 1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [42]
Scope and Contents Commentary on Archibald Pitcairne's Edinburgh edition of Solutio Problematis de Historicis; seu de Inventoribus Dissertatio, (1688) of which an enlarged edition appeared at Leiden in 1693. This tract made Pitcairne's subsequent medical career on the continent for its vindication of the claims of William Harvey to the discovery of the circulation of the blood. It contains other things as well, notably the first public presentation of Gregory's second method of...
Dates: after August 1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Ratio et Demonstratio Methodi Joannis Craige, 1686

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [200]
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Craige's suggestion for handling a finite quadrature. Attached is a slip on binomial reduction.

Dates: 1686
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Refer: ad Geom: Cartesianam, 1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [148]
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Thoughts on Descartes, written up in Rotterdam.

Dates: 1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Scheda de Curva Catenaria sive Funicularia, 23 January 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [1]
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Draft of a paper on the catenary curve which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for the month of August 1697. Applies Newtonian fluxions to a disputed concept of Jean Bernoulli's. Loose addendum 11a is the opening paragraph; leaf 11b is the calculations pertaining to Proposition 2, with Corollaries 5 and 6 on the reverse.

Dates: 23 January 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Slusi solutio Probl: quorundam in Lect: Barrowi ..., c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [23]
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De Sluse's commentary on Barrow, copied out of a letter of 25 July 1670.

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

Slusius de equationum limitibus, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [25]
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Sluse on the limits of functions, penned in March of 1670.

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

Slusius de figuris cycloidicis, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [26]
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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