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Mathematics

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Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research, 1896-1979

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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]
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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]
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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

Indefinita quadratura lunula Hippocratis, 1 August 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [64]
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Gregory's notes on conversations with Fatio and his own brother James.

Dates: 1 August 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio, 1700

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [index]
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An index, in Gregory's hand, to the material he designated as Folio C.

Dates: 1700
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Inventio Canonis quo facillime ex quaratico Tschurnhausii determinatur quadranda, c1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [209]
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Gregory learns more quadrature from Tchirnhausen.

Dates: c1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Investigatio Curvae Celerrimi descensus, February 1697

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [219]
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Workpapers in which Gregory supposes that a solid's quickest line of descent through a curve is not the catenary or the cycloid, but the trochoid.

Dates: February 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Isaaci Newtoni tractatus de seriebus infinitis et convergentibus, c1685

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [56(1)]
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Notes on Newton's 1671 tract on fluxions, copied out from John Craige. Their concluding section, on angular sections, is in English.

Dates: c1685
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Jac: Gregorii Methodus Depomendi aequationem. Cont: 4. fol., s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [146]
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Gregory's writeup of two of his uncle's notions in algebra.

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

Jac: Gregorii Oratio ad Acad: Edinburg:, 1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [17]
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Inaugural peech of David Gregory's brother James upon his accession to the mathematics chair at Edinburgh.

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