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Date
24 January 1700
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p2
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 252mm
width (page): 209mm
width (page): 209mm
Subject
Description
In response to a criticism in Acta Eruditorum (1699), David Gregory offered a proof of one of his lemmas relating to the properties of a curve known as catenary. The paper was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, no. 259 (1699).
Transcription
D. G. Responsio ad animadversiones ad Davidis Gregorii Catenariam, pag. 87, An: 1699, Act. Erud: Lipsiae.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
24 January 1700, 'A letter was read, from Dr Gregory to Dr Sloane, desiring a paper of his vindicating himself against a paper in the Acta eruditorum ann. 99 p. 87. This vindication was ordered to be printed' (JBO/10/162).
Figure printed at D. Gregory, 'Responsio ad Animadversionem ad Davidis Gregorii Catenariam, Act. Eruditorum Lipsiae, Mense Februarii Anno 1699', Phil. Trans., vol. 21, no. 259 (1699), pp. 419-26 (p. 422).
Figure printed at D. Gregory, 'Responsio ad Animadversionem ad Davidis Gregorii Catenariam, Act. Eruditorum Lipsiae, Mense Februarii Anno 1699', Phil. Trans., vol. 21, no. 259 (1699), pp. 419-26 (p. 422).
Related fellows
David Gregory (1659 - 1708, British) , Astronomer, Astronomer
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