In 1927 the Edinburgh Mathematical Society began to publish Series 2 of the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. The first paper in the new Series was by George Gibson and it was the first part of his two-part paper Sketch of the History of Mathematics in Scotland to the end of the 18th Century. The first part occupied the first 17 pages of Volume I, Part I issued in May 1927. The second part of his paper occupied pages 71 to 93 of Volume I, and was issued as the first paper in Part II. We present a version of the paper below. We have broken the paper into smaller parts for convenience of presenting it in our archive but this is a somewhat arbitrary division and certainly was not intended by Gibson.

1. Gibson History 1 - Introduction

2. Gibson History 2 - Mathematics in the schools

3. Gibson History 3 - Founding of the Universities

4. Gibson History 4 - John Napier

5. Gibson History 5 - James Gregory

6. Gibson History 6 - More Gregorys

7. Gibson History 7 - Robert Simson

8. Gibson History 8 - James Stirling

9. Gibson History 9 - Colin Maclaurin

10. Gibson History 10 - Matthew Stewart, John Stewart, William Trail

11. Gibson History 11 - John Playfair, Sir John Leslie

12. Gibson History 12 - Minor figures, Arithmetic Books

13. Gibson History 13 - Postscript
    

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