Diagram
Date
April 1700
Creator
David Gregory (1659 - 1708, British) , Astronomer, Astronomer
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
f22r
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 270mm
width (page): 188mm
width (page): 188mm
Subject
Description
Diagram in David Gregory's notes dated April 1700 on Isaac Newton's theory of the motion of the Moon.
Transcription
Number 122 in a square, with the number 2 in a circle underneath it [David Gregory's numbering of his papers
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
MS 247 is part of the papers of David Gregory and James Gregorie. It includes Isaac Newton’s autograph draft of what is known as the ‘classical scholia’ (1693-94) to the third book of the Principia, which was never printed but was shared with Gregory, who drew on it for his preface to his own Elementa astronomiae physicae et geometricae (London, 1702).
See Paolo Casini, ‘Newton: The Classical Scholia’, History of Science, 22 (1984), 1-58.
See Paolo Casini, ‘Newton: The Classical Scholia’, History of Science, 22 (1984), 1-58.
Related fellows
David Gregory (1659 - 1708, British) , Astronomer, Astronomer
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
Associated place