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  • David Gregory and Newtonian Science

  • Christina M. Eagles
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 10 / Issue 3 / November 1977
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 216-225
    Print publication:
    November 1977

  • The purpose of this article is to point out that, contrary to popular belief, David Gregory did not lecture on the Newtonian philosophy when he was Professer of Mathematics at Edinburgh University. This belief has arisen because of a statement of Whiston's which attributes to David a paper written by his younger brother James. Nevertheless, some of David's Edinburgh students were acquainted with Newton's work, and I shall examine the extent to which this was so, and look at the other sources which he used in his teaching. Finally, Gregory's attitudes are seen to be typical of those prevailing in the Scottish universities of his day.

  • Science and Theology at Chartres: The Case of the Supracelestial Waters

  • Helen Rodnite Lemay
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 10 / Issue 3 / November 1977
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 226-236
    Print publication:
    November 1977

  • The twelfth-century school of Chartres has long been famous for its rhetorical excellence and its Platonist philosophy. Only recently, however, have scholars become aware of the important role played by natural science in this centre of European thought. Questions about the corporeal world, or, as one Chartrain put it, ‘those things which are and which are seen, were asked there just as frequently and their answers sought just as eagerly as more intangible queries about incorporeal beings. Chartres produced long encyclopedic works of natural philosophy and applied a scientific outlook to its theological writings as well.

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