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ing the honour to Lipperhey.
[2] Will the indulgent reader excuse an
anecdote which may encourage some work-
ers who may have found their mathemat-
ics defective through want of use? James
Gregory’s nephew David had a heap of MS.
notes by Newton. These descended to a
Miss Gregory, of Edinburgh, who handed
them to the present writer, when an under-
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