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THIS is one of the MSS. of David Gregory, preserved at Christ Church, Oxford, accompanied by some brief notes of the editor, Mr. Hiscock, who seems to have done them very well. The interest of this publication centres around the name of Newton. It is only by making available the views of his contemporaries that we can realize Newton. To print an account is very much the most effective way of making it available. If a thing is written down, it remains, and if it is printed, many people read it. Their views, even if diverse, and even if negligently formed, congeal about something common tp all. It may be compared with the short issue of Stukeley's account, recently reviewed in NATURE (138, 617; 1936).
David Gregory, Isaac Newton and their Circle
Extracts from David Gregory's Memoranda, 1677–1708. Edited by W. G. Hiscock. Pp. ix + 48. (Oxford: W. G. Hiscock, Conway, Squitchey Lane, 1937.) 10s.
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S., R. David Gregory. Nature 139, 903 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139903a0
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