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First Measured Century: Interview: James Gregory (3452 words) |
 | James Gregory is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. |
| JAMES GREGORY: One other wonderful part of the myth of the Dust Bowl Migration is its association with covered wagons, westward trails and pioneer experiences, and if you just stop for a second and realize, this is the 1930s, and nearly everybody had an automobile. |
| JAMES GREGORY: California was not a hospitable place, in a lot of ways, in the late 1930s, and one of the more interesting parts of this whole story is the complicated negotiations between the newcomers and the old-timers. |
| Gregory (2582 words) |
| James Gregory was born in the Manse of Drumoak. |
| Gregory began to study optics and the construction of telescopes. |
| The dispute had another unfortunate consequence, namely that Gregory became much less keen to announce the methods by which he made his mathematical discoveries and, as a consequence, it was not until Turnbull examined Gregory's papers in the library in St Andrews in the 1930s that the full brilliance of Gregory's discoveries became known. |
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