James Gregory

James Gregory

Astronomy,Natural Philosophy

James Gregory was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer, born in Drumoak, Aberdeenshire. He was the son of an Episcopalian minster of the Church of Scotland. After travelling widely in Europe, he became professor of mathematics at the University of St Andrews in 1668. In 1674 he moved to Edinburgh, where he became the University of Edinburgh's professor of mathematics. He died only a year after taking up the post at the age of only 36. As well as making several important contributions to mathematics he was the inventor of the Gregorian reflecing telescope.

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