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Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:

Demonstratio regularum Huddonii..., 1708

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [65]
Scope and Contents

Several demonstrations of axioms derived by Hudde, in letter form, addressed to one M. Sauveur.

Also a record of a conversation with M. Fatio, fellow mathematician and confirmed religious fanatic.

Two unrelated pages follow, before item 66: a pair of printed leaves in optics.

Dates: 1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Demonstration que la Cycloide est la Courve de la ... descent, 1699

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [123]
Scope and Contents

Gregory's copy of de l'Hôpital's analysis of the curve of most rapid descent into a cycloid.

Dates: 1699
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

D.G.'s Demonstratio Methodi Slusii de Tang., c1683

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [143]
Scope and Contents

Gregory's early attempt to prove Sluse's rule for tangents from Fermat or from Barrow.

Dates: c1683
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

DG's letter to Dr Aldrich about the present series ..., 11 October 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [103]
Scope and Contents

English note about the editorial presentation of a published series. Henry Aldrich was Gregory's friend and also Dean of Christ Church.

Dates: 11 October 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

D.T. Nova methodus determinandi Maxima et Minima, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [32]
Scope and Contents

Hand-copy of an article (Act. Eruditorum Lipsiae, Mar. 1683) by Tschirnhaus, on maxima and minima. The hand may not be Gregory's.

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

Ejusdem Marchionis Inventis solidi cui minime..., after 1699

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [123(2)]
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Notes on de l'Hôpital's analysis of curved solids.

Dates: after 1699
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Epist ad D. Hugenium..., 10 September 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [180]
Scope and Contents

Draft of a letter to Christiaan Huygens, in which Gregory follows up on his promise in Holland to send along his 'second method' of quadrature in detail.

Dates: 10 September 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Epistola de quadraturis Dav: Gre: ad Wallisium missa et vol: alt: impressa, 1 July 1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [73]
Scope and Contents

Draft of a letter (final version dated 21 July) to John Wallis, who wished to include Gregory's 'second method' of quadrature in the 1693 revision of his 'Algebra'.

Dates: 1 July 1692
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Ex Scriptis H. van Heurat, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [59]
Scope and Contents

A writeup of Heurat's theorems on the quadrature of curves, possibly written out by one 'D Verwer'.

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

Ex Tschurnhausii Theoremate et Methodo Deducitur Canon meus, 1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [207]
Scope and Contents

A 11-page tranche of workpapers in which Gregory derives his own conclusions from the work of Tchirnhausen.

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