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Leighton Library has 1702 first edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" by David Gregory
Added at 07:09 on 10 October 2024
The Leighton Library has a 1702 first edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" (which was first textbook on gravitational principals and astronomy) by Scottish mathematician and astronomer David Gregory who died #OnThisDay 10 October 1708. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and later Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford. He extended the method of quadratures by infinite series, and as a professor was the first to lecture publicly on Newtonian philosophy, and his lectures covered geodesy, optics, dynamics, and various branches of mathematics
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