Site Represents a site. Show Point true Prim Media 581 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/. Title A name given to the resource Gregory's Pillar Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived mathematicalycurious Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 327 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.31751403955839,-2.7939230203628544; Description An account of the resource Around 1670, the Regius Professor of Mathematics at St Andrews, James Gregory, had this pillar erected on a hill about a mile south of the University library. There he had his telescope and a very early example of a pendulum clock. He lined his telescope up with the pillar and in 1674 he cooperated with colleagues in Paris to make simultaneous observations of an eclipse of the moon and was able to work out the longitude for the first time. <p>For more information, see <a href="https://maths.curious-sta.org/gregorys-pillar/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource mm510@st-andrews.ac.uk Subject The topic of the resource Mathematics Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT