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Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin on the priority dispute with Campbell regarding impossible roots, 1 May 1729

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Identifier: Coll-2911/4
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Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin to addressed to James Stirling "at the Academy in Little Tower Street, London", dated 1 May 1729, on the priority dispute with Campbell regarding impossible roots ("I have sent Mr Folkes the remainder of my paper … I am satisfied that any person who will read this paper and compare it with Mr Campbell’s will do me justice … The proposition I sent you in my last letter is the foundation of all my Theorems about the impossible Roots)".

Dates: 1 May 1729
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin on the priority dispute with George Campbell over the impossible roots of equations, 11 February 1728 [Old Style, i.e. 1729]

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Identifier: Coll-2911/1
Scope and Contents Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at the Academy in Little Tower Street, London", dated Edinburgh, 11 February 1728 [Old Style, which means the year is actually 1729], expressing agitation regarding the replication of his work on the "impossible roots" in a paper by George Campbell in the Philosophical Transactions for October, asserting his own claim to priority, and providing demonstrations (including one...
Dates: 11 February 1728 [Old Style, i.e. 1729]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

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Identifier: Coll-2911
Scope and Contents This collection consists of eleven letters from Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin addressed to his fellow mathematician James Stirling "at the Academy in Little Tower Street", London, or "at Leadhills". The correspondence is dated from 1728 to 1740, and discusses the 1728-9 controversy between Colin MacLaurin and George Campbell over complex roots, as well as other contemporary mathematical and scientific subjects. The letters Coll-2911/6, 7, 10 are annotated with mathematical...
Dates: 1728-1740
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Bibliographies compiled by Thomson, 1905-1954

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Identifier: Coll-1310/3/4
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The bibliographies detail publications with full references, largely chronologically. These include journal articles, books, and published lectures.

Dates: 1905-1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson / Unpublished materials authored by Thomson

Brasseri Methodus inveniendi divisores numeri, 1690's

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [130]
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The meaning of 'Brasseri' is not clear. A note on Hudde follows. This item is out of sequence: it comes before C 129.

Dates: 1690's
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Calculus in Act: Lipsia pro 1697..., 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [104]
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Calculations for a contribution in the Spring of 1697 to the "Acta Lipsia", probably the Leipzig periodical Acta Eruditorum.

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

Carulus Bovillus ... Cycloidem Noverat 1507, 9 November 1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [109]
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A page of reading notes from mathematics works from 1503-1509, edited it appears by one Charles Bovill. An inky thumbprint obscures one of the two diagrams on the page.

An algebraic proof, possibly unrelated, follows on a separate sheet.

Dates: 9 November 1696
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Catalogue of the Mathematical Works of the Learned Mr. Thomas Baker, c1683

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [11]
Scope and Contents 7 page printed catalogue of the mathematical works of Thomas Baker. According to David Gregory's own index this was "Printed by Mr Collins". John Collins was a well known register of scientific accomplishments and zealous correspondent with Gregory and his uncle James Gregory (the source of David's core maths collection). This catalogue was printed, with a proposal for producing all of Baker's works in full, under the aegis of the Royal Society, whose council approved the measure and agreed...
Dates: c1683
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Catalogus Librorum Novorum Mathem: in Gallijs 1693, c1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [29]
Scope and Contents List of partial titles in applied mathematics, mostly, in a hand other than David Gregory's-and one of them in Greek, not a language in which he was comfortable. 1693 was the year he made his last trip to the continent, visiting Flanders as new Savilian Professor. These varied titles consider things like the statics of exploding gunpowder and draining water, dioptrics, micromeasurement, catapults, and astrophysics. This bibliography may be part of a larger one, judging by "par le meme" in...
Dates: c1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Chartae 4. fol: de Nostra 2da Quadrandi Methodo, 1686

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [206]
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A tranche of workpapers in which Gregory continues to labour on adapting Newton's method of quadrature. He continues to have trouble adapting the basic series, an indefinite integral, to the definite integral defined between O and x.

One paper among these was probably intended for the Astronomiae, showing a body moving in an ellipse.

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