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James Gregorie (he favoured this Scottish spelling over 'Gregory') was born in Drumoak, near Aberdeen, Scotland, in November 1638. His father having died young, he was sent by his older brother to Aberdeen to attend grammar school and then ... John Flamsteed (1646-1719), not appointed astronomer royal until 1675,
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Papers of David Gregory (1652-1706) ... David Gregory Papers (1675-1713) ... The Contents of Mr Collins's letters to Mr Gregory from 1669 to Mr Gregory's death Octr 1675 (s.d.)
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James Gregory, the Aberdeen mathematician, is arguably the greatest scientist associated with St Andrews. In 1661, at the age of 23, he invented a type of reflecting telescope, later to be described as `Gregorian'.
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www-ah.st-andrews.ac.uk/mgstud/reflect/gregory.html
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James Gregory was a seventeenth century mathematician and astronomer who developed infinite series representations for various trigonometric functions, but is better known for providing the first account of a practical reflecting telescope. ... He died only a few days later in October of 1675, only thirty-six years old.
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James Gregory was a Scottish scientist and first Regius Professor of Mathematics at St Andrews who described the first practical reflecting telescope. He worked on using infinite convergent series to find the areas of the circle and hyperbola.
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www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Gregory.htm...
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James Gregory, born at Drumoak near Aberdeen in 1638, and died at Edinburgh in October 1675, was successively professor at St. Andrews and Edinburgh. In 1660 he published his Optica Promota, in which the reflecting telescope known by his name is described.
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Three members of the eminent academic dynasty who held many chairs in St Andrews, Edinburgh and Oxford, the Gregories were pre-eminently mathematicians. The small collection comprises mainly dictates, notes and lectures, as well as ... No single list, ... To access the manuscripts database click on the following telnet access,
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Scottish mathematician and astronomer who invented the Gregorian telescope. He anticipated Taylor series long before Brook Taylor. Using a Taylor series, he was able to compute the natural logarithm of any positive number. ... ; Additional biographies: MacTutor (St. Andrews), Dublin Trinity College, Bonn ... Branch of Science...
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scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Gregory.html
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