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Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio

Item Summary

Reference Code

GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.61 Folio C [index]

Date(s)

1700

Extent and medium of the unit of description

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

An index, in Gregory's hand, to the material he designated as Folio C.

Index

Subjects

Astronomy
Mathematics
Medicine
Physics

People

Barrow | Isaac | 1630-1677 | Cambridge mathematician, classicist and divine
Boyle | Robert | 1627-1691 | natural philosopher and chemist
Collins | John | 1625-1683 | mathematician
Descartes | Rene | 1596-1650 | French mathematician
Diophantus of Alexandria | c200-c284 | Greek mathematician
Duillier | Fatio | De | 1664-1753 | Swiss mathematician, University of Oxford
Euclid of Alexandria | 325-265 BC | Egyptian mathematician
Fenton | James | fl1689 | Scottish mathematician
Flamsteed | John | 1646-1719 | 1st astronomer royal
Gregory | David | 1659-1708 | professor of mathematics University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy at University of Oxford
Gregory | James | 1638-1675 | professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh
Halley | Edmund | 1656-1742 | astronomer
Hooke | Robert | Experimental physicist and professor of geometry, University of Oxford
Hudde | Jan | 1628-1704 | Dutch mathematician
Huygens | Christiaan | 1629-1695 | Dutch mathematician
Kepler | Johannes | 1571-1630 | German mathematician and astronomer
Leibniz | Gottfried Willhelm | 1646-1716 | German mathematician and philosopher
Mercator | Nicholas | ?1620-1687 | German mathematician and designer of the Versailles fountains | called Kauffmann
Newton | Sir | Isaac | 1642-1727 | mathematician and astronomer
Pitcairne | Archibald | 1652-1713 | Scottish physician, amateur mathematician and poet
Ptolemy | Claudius | c85-165 | Egyptian astronomer
Pythagoras of Samos | c569 BC-c475 BC | Greek mathematician
Schooten | Frans | Van | 1615-1660 | Dutch mathematician
Serenus | d c360 | Greek mathematician
Sluse | René François | De | 1622-1685 | Belgian mathematician
Snell | Willebrord | 1591-1626 | Dutch astronomer and mathematician | called Snellius
Tchirnhausen | Ehrenfried Walther | Von | 1631-1708 | German mathematician
Torricelli | Evangelista | 1608-1647 | Italian mathematician
Wallis | John | 1616-1703 | professor of geometry, University of Oxford

Places

Edinburgh (Scotland)
Netherlands
Oxford (England)

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