For two centuries the Gregory family filled Scotland’s university chairs with almost dynastic regularity — among them James Gregory, inventor of the reflecting telescope and rival-correspondent of Newton. Agnes Grainger Stewart’s The Academic Gregories traces the whole remarkable clan: the mathematicians, physicians and professors who made one Highland name synonymous with Scottish learning.
It is family history as intellectual history — nature, nurture and nepotism all under one tartan. Download the free EPUB and meet academia’s most persistent bloodline.