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Description: | 2/3 portrait of James Gregory, facing slightly right. Sitter has long brown hair. He is wearing a black gown, with clerical collar, white puff-like cuff, in a brown background. Astronomical globe right. Gregory (1638-1675), Drumoak, MA Marischal College 1657, inventor of reflecting telescope, Prof Mathematics St Andrews, 1674 Prof Mathematics Edinburgh. This painting (unattributed) was exhibited at the Palace of History Exhibition, Glasgow 1911.
"Gregory (1638-1675) was born at Drumoak. He graduated from Marischal College in 1657. His first important work was in optics, and by 1663 he had published a book on the subject and had invented the reflecting telescope. Later that year he went to Italy to further his mathematical studies. There he published 2 books on calculus (as it was later known). He returned to Scotland in 1668 and became the first professor of maths at St. Andrews. In 1674 he went to Edinburgh but shortly afterwards his health began to fail and he died the following year. He shares with Newton the credit for the discovery and proof of the general binomial theorem and for the development of the theory of interpolation. Possibly a copy or a duplicate work by Scougall as a portrait of Gregory attributed to John Scougall is in Fyvie Castle (ex 1884 Scot Nat Portraits No494 Artist unknown). This was reputedly in the possession of the Gregory Family since it was painted between 1661-1675. The University work lacks the inscription of the Fyvie painting however the inscription is post mortem."
Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541 | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1650-1800 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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