Site Represents a site. Prim Media 698 Show Point true Pin PIN4 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 James Gregory’s Meridian Line Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 363 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.3393322,-2.7964111; Description An account of the resource James Gregory was a Scottish astronomer, mathematician and Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews. Gregory's contribution to his field is astonishing. For Astronomy, he developed a telescope that uses the properties of mirrors instead of lenses, and he pioneered the photometric method for calculating the distance to the stars, formalised later by Newton. For Mathematics, he seems to have developed calculus methods and the binomial theorem way before Newton and Leibniz did. In addition, he deduced several trigonometric series using the method that is now known as Taylor Series. In 1673, Gregory placed this meridian line in St Andrews, way before the establishment of the Greenwich Meridian. His line fixes time to be just 12 minutes before the GMT, meaning that for a long time Scots were 12 minutes early to their appointments. See also https://www.curious-sta.org/james-gregory/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource mav7@st-andrews.ac.uk Subject The topic of the resource Astronomy,Mathematics Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived ,,, Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT