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Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:

Excerpta de Codico M.S. Henratii communicata a [illegible], 27 May 1693

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [19]
Scope and Contents

Extract of a volume (only partially cited) found by David Gregory in Amsterdam. He captions this "F: a. Schoten', suggesting that the work transcribed is that of geometer Frans van Schooten (1615-1660). The work concerns curves and quadratures, and is laced with comparisons to the work of Jan Hudde.

Dates: 27 May 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Explanation of Symbols, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/18
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on the symbology of mathematics and engineering, followed by miscellanea on dymanics ('wheel carriages' being a special topic). There are some minor diagrams, and some of the terms are glossed with Russian.

Dates: c1780-c1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

Extracta ex Journales des Scavans, after 1682

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [111]
Scope and Contents

Notes on curves, taken "ex transact: philos: gallicis 1682".

Dates: after 1682
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Extrait de Manouvre des Vaisseaux ... sequuntur ... de Newtoni cogitatio, 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [57]
Scope and Contents

A jotting, dated 1694, about a book on how vessels turn (for Gregory was interested in how solids behaved in fluids), and diagrams on the catenary curve, annotated annoted by Gregory and by Newton, almost certainly during their five-day meeting in Cambridge in May of the same year.

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

Fluxions, c1780-c1808

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Identifier: Coll-204/20
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on the calculus.

Dates: c1780-c1808
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

Folio B, c1669-c1708

 Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: Most of the scientific content of Folio B comes from early in Gregory's career. It includes an index of later letters of John Collins (1625-1683) to James Gregorie (1638-1675), a number of Edinburgh lectures in geometry, mechanics, and optics, and some tables and manuscript pieces of 'Elementa Catoptricae et Dioptricae', the 'Institutes of Astronomy', and the...
Dates: c1669-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

Folio C, c1680-c1708

 Series — Volume Dc.1.61: Series Coll-33/Folio C
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: These are mostly handwritten items, bound together as a volume, though with some loose insertions of manuscripts which had strayed, some of them with modern annotations concerning their provenance. Their scope and content is as David Gregory indexed them, save for the missing items, which consist of two dozen papers and letters on general physics and maths, and...
Dates: c1680-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research, 1896-1979

 Sub-subfonds
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/G1
Scope and Contents Material regarding the Moray House Tests, c1920s-1970s; Northumberland Mental Tests, c1920s; Sample tests, 1920-1987; Testing Samples, United States, c1920s-1950s; Publications, 1896-c1978; Godfrey Thomson, c1930s-1947; Correspondence...
Dates: 1896-1979
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc.

Ichnographia ville prope Leidam ubi Des Cartes mansit, 1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [154]
Scope and Contents

A ground plan of Descartes' house near Leyden. On the reverse is a Latin treatment of the relationship between religious faith and philosophical certitude.

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

In editione nova Philos: Newtoniana haec ab Auctore fient, May 1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [42]
Scope and Contents

These are the things that Gregory was able to copy into his notes or his own copy of the Principia from those things which Newton had altered in his own copy. He proposed that these be published as a volume of Notae if not as a second edition.

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