Organisation Wikidata ID Q313906 End Date 1675 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource 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. Title A name given to the resource James Gregory Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived history Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 153 Type The nature or genre of the resource Organisation Subject The topic of the resource Astronomy,Natural Philosophy Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gregory_(mathematician)