NAHSTE: Ad Philosophiam Neutoni Nota

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Ad Philosophiam Neutoni Nota
Item Summary
Reference Code	GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.61 Folio C [181]
Date(s)	15 September 1693
Extent and medium of the unit of description	1 manuscript
Name of creator	Gregory \| David \| 1659-1708 \| professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford
Scope and Content
Scope and Content	For Gregory's Nota to Newton's Principia. One of several attempts (see C46, C60, and C63) to understand Newton's corollary 2 to proposition 91, book 1, which discovered the ratio of the attraction of a shpere to that of a spheroid, and involved the integration of the square root of a trinomial.
Index
Subjects	Mathematics
People	Newton \| Sir \| Isaac \| 1642-1727 \| mathematician and astronomer
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Ad Philosophiam Neutoni Nota