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James Gregory. James Gregory is described as "the greatest scientist
associated it St. Andrews". Gregory contributed many diverse ...
James Gregory. James Gregory (November 1638 – October 1675), was a Scottish
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james gergory. James Gregory was born in the Manse of Drumoak. This is a small parish
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James Gregory is described as \\\"the greatest scientist associated it St. Andrews\\\". Gregory contributed many diverse consepts and helped spread the new teachings of his time.
CHILDHOOD & EDUCATION
James Gregory was born in a small town just outside of Aberdeen, called Drmoak, Scotland. When he was little James suffered from quartan fever for a year and a half. Because of the fever he was afflicted with fevers in 72 hour intervals. His mother introduced basic math and geometry at a very young age. Gregory was home schooled until
his fater, a wealthy minister, died when James was about 13 years old. After his father died, his older brother, David, sent him to grammar school in Aberdeed. After finishing grammar school James attended Marischal College, Aberdeen University.
MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Shortly after college he began to study optics and the construction of telescopes, and wrote his first book, Optica Promota ^1. In 1663 James went to London where he published Optica Promota, which discussed topics such as lenses, mirrors, reflection and refraction, paralax and transits. Optica Promota also discussed Gregory\\\'s most famous invention, the reflective telescope. It later became known and the Gregorian Telescope. However, at the time the telescope was only discussed because the mirror polishers could not polish the mirrors properly, so it was never auctually made until
after Gregory\\\'s death. He laso invented the feflective burning mirror. In 1664 James went to Puda, Italy and studied under Stefano degli Angeli in geometry, mechanics, and astronomy. While he was there, the published two more worksVera circuli et hyperbolae in which James showed how to compute logarithms by finding the areas of inscribed parallelograms between a hyperbola and its asymptotes, thus leading to the term \\\"hyperbolic logarithms\\\" in 1667. ^2 And Geometriae para universalis where he attempted to prove that the (little...
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