Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has a 1702 edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" by David Gregory

Added at 06:52 on 03 June 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1702 edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" by Scottish mathematician and astronomer David Gregory who was born #OnThisDay 3 June 1659. 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