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University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development: buildings plans, 1951-1978

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/D/5
Scope and Contents The University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development: buildings plans consists of: plans: proposed car park plans, (1971 plans: College of Agriculture, (1954-1974) plans: King's Buildings Centre, (1964-1973) plans: Maths / Physics Institute, (1965-1975) plans: zoology building, (1959-1973 plans: department of animal...
Dates: 1951-1978
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates / University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area / University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development

University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development: Maths / Physics Institute, 1965-1975

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/D/5.4
Scope and Contents

11 copy architectural plans (73cm x 111cm) for the Maths /Physics Institute at the University of Edinburgh King's Buildings. The plans are designed by the architects Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson and consist of a site plan, a grounds plan and floor plans all at 1/16" to 1' scale, and elevations and sections all 1/4" to 1' scale. .

Dates: 1965-1975
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates / University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area / University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development / University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development: buildings plans

untitled, c June 1706

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [49.3]
Scope and Contents

This appears to go with item Coll-33/Quarto A [49.2] , "Querys to Sr Humphrey Mackworth", neither of which has an entry in Gregory's index. It is clearly an amortization problem, and bears a relation to the Equivalent and to calculations by a Mr H.

Dates: c June 1706
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Varia Exempla particularia ... Nostr: Methodo, 1688-1707

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [211]
Scope and Contents

Gregory considers his work in light of Craige's.

On the reverse of one sheet, dated 29 January 1707, Gregory notes some of the prophecies of the sect to which his colleague Fatio belonged.

Dates: 1688-1707
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Varia positiones ... in prob: Pappi, c1703

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [59]
Scope and Contents

Latin and English notes on Pappus, probably in connection with his book project on the ancient geometers.

The third side of this item is unrelated, a copy of an 1707 letter from Gregory, Christopher Wren, Isaac Newton, and others, to Danish astronomer Olav Roemer, concerning the Astronomiae, and accuracy of certain calculations and observations by Flamsteed and Tycho Brahe. The Tycho ms. is probably the 1627 Tabulae Rudolphinae, translated by Kepler.

Dates: c1703
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Viviani Enigma Geometricum Demonstratum, 18 December 1693

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [137]
Scope and Contents

One of the three drafts of a paper 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.

Dates: 18 December 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Wallis de Quadrat: Hyperbolae, 1702-1710

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [128(2)]
Scope and Contents

A paper of Dr Wallis's on quadrature and hyperbolae. A possibly unrelated jotting follows on a separate slip.

Dates: 1702-1710
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

تحریر اقلیدس Taḥrīr Uqlīdus, 882 A.H. and 982 A.H., 1477 C.E. and 1573 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 27
Scope and Contents This is a much more complete work of Euclid than the Greek text that has come down to us. It was translated from the Greek by the famous philosopher and astronomer Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) b. Imām Fakhr al-Dīn, and was brought to Spain by the Arabs, thence a knowledge of its contents was diffused throughout Europe long before the Greek original was discovered. In this work Naṣīr al-Dīn proves most of the propositions, sometimes in two, three, and four ways,...
Dates: 882 A.H. and 982 A.H.; 1477 C.E. and 1573 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

تحریر اقلیدس Taḥrīr Uqlīdus, 902 A.H., 1496 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 392
Scope and Contents This is a much more complete work of Euclid than the Greek text that has come down to us. It was translated into Arabic (from Greek) by the famous philosopher and astronomer Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) b. Imām Fakhr al-Dīn, and was brought to Spain by the Arabs, thence a knowledge of its contents was diffused throughout Europe long before the Greek original was discovered. In this work Naṣīr al-Dīn proves most of the propositions, sometimes in two, three, and four...
Dates: 902 A.H.; 1496 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

تحریر المجستي Taḥrīr al-Mijistī, 1011 A.H., 1602 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 396
Scope and Contents

A slightly defective copy of Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) edition of the Arabic version of Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy (c.100–170 C.E.), a 2nd-century Greek-language treatise on mathematics and astronomy concerning the planetary paths and motions of the stars.


The present copy contains many astronomical tables and diagrams; headings in red; an innumerable amount of glosses on the margin.

Dates: 1011 A.H.; 1602 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia