Life and Writings of Dr. Gregory. 8 1 



David Gregory of Oxford, another of the 

 family, the Doctor's coufin, publifhed an excel- 

 Jent and complete Treatife of Aftronomy, found- 

 ed upon the principles, and explanatory of the 

 dodrine, of Sir Ifaac Newton. James Gregory, 

 M. D. the Dodor's eldcft brother, fucceeded 

 their father as Profefibr of Medicine in King's 

 College, Aberdeen: and the Dodor, of whom 

 we write, has left a fon, who now holds the office 

 of ProfeiTorof the Inftitutions of Medicine in the 

 Univerfuy of Edinburgh, made vacant by the 

 eledion of Dr. Cullcn to be fole Profelfor of 

 Pradice, after his father's death. It feems to 

 be the deftiny of this family, to enlarge fcience, 

 and inftrud mankind] and we hope, it will lono- 

 hold this honourable diftindion. 



Though Dr. Gregory's fatlier died, when his 

 fon was very young, his education was carefully 

 and fuccefsfully conduc^ied by able and fldlful 

 perfons, who were attached to his father and 

 family, as well as to the duty they owed to their 

 pupil. In fuch a happy fituation for improve- 

 ment, Dr. Gregory made a rapid progrefs in 

 his ftudies. ' At Aberdeen, he became thoroughly 

 acquainted with the learned languages, and with 

 his own J here he finiHied his courfe of phi- 

 lofophy, and his mathematical ftudics ; for 

 like the reft of his anceftors, he was deeply 

 verfed in mathematical knowledge. And in this 

 admirable fchool, where abflrad fcience itfclf 

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