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Papers of David Gregory
    Gregory Papers

Edinburgh University Library Special Collections Division

Tractata et Dicta Huddenis Amsterodami, Maio 1693

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GB 0237 David Gregory Dk.1.2.1 Quarto A [9]

Date(s)

27 May 1693

Extent and medium of the unit of description

1

manuscript

Name of creator

Gregory | David | 1661-1708 | professor of mathematics and astronomy, University of Edinburgh

Scope and Content

Scope and Content

Minute account of a day-long meeting with Jan Hudde in Amsterdam, covering things algebraic. Allusions to Gerardus Mercator's vindication about hyperbolics, and to foliate curves in general.

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