Some notes about books in the publick Library of Oxon.; Queen M.['s] death; Dr Wallis's eyes; Dr Busby's Algebra

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Note of some Arabic versions of Apollonius' "Sectio Ratione" in the Bodleian Library, that possess Latin glosses by Edward Bernard, Gregory's predecessor in the Savilian Chair of Astronomy, and one other person. Bernard had wished to publish the works of the ancient mathematicians; this manuscript he found defective and abandoned, unable to translate completely. [His partial translation was copied out by Gregory as B37, and used by Sir Edmund Halley to learn enough Arabic to translate the whole.] Rough references follow as well to works by Claudius Ptolemy and Archimedes. 3 English jottings from the next year-and-a-half fill out the page, noting the death of Queen Mary II at Kensington, the worsening myopia of his Oxford friend John Wallis, and the apparent bequeathal to Gregory of his colleague Richard Busby's tractate on algebra for posthumous editing and publishing.

• Algebra
• Authors and Publishers
• Death
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Mathematicians
• Translations

• Apollonius of Perga | 262-190 BC | Greek mathematician
• Archimedes of Syracuse | 287-212 BC | Sicillian mathematician
• Bernard | Edward | 1638-1696 | professor of astronomy, University of Oxford
• Busby | Richard | 1606-1695 | headmaster of Westminster School
• Gregory | David | 1661-1708 | professor of mathematics and astronomy, University of Edinburgh
• Halley | Sir | Edmund | 1656-1742 | astronomer
• Mary II | 1662-1694 | Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland
• Ptolemy | Claudius | c85 -165 | Egyptian astronomer
• Wallis | John | 1616 - 1703 | professor of geometry, University of Oxford

• University of Oxford | Bodleian Library | 1602-: | university library, Oxford (England)

• Kensington (London, England)