Talk:James Gregory (mathematician)

Biography assessment rating comment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- KenWalker | Talk 04:08, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Distance of stars
At http://www.messiermarathon.com/astro_timeline.htm I found the following statement: "James Gregory makes the first realistic estimate of the distances of the stars. Gregory assumed that the other stars were just as bright as the Sun and then calculated how distant they had to be to match their apparent brightnesses." If someone can confirm this, we should add it to the article as it seems to be a major astronomical achievement. --88.73.157.111 (talk) 13:07, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Madhava of Sangamagrama
Is the reference to him really necessary? His work did not lead to any practical applications, whereas Gregory's discovery of these series (I'm presuming) had an influence on Taylor's theorem, which has important applications in physics and engineering. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.189.68.210 (talk) 09:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

About the refimprove tag
Someone tagged the article with "refimprove". If someone wants to solve this problem, there is a list of references in http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/References/Gregory.html that can be helpful. Chen10k2 (talk) 02:16, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Confusion
There seems to be some confusion between refraction and diffaction in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.27.200.192 (talk) 10:57, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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