Publications of Robert Simson

Author

  • Simson, Robert. Sectionum conicarum libri V. Auctore Roberto Simson, In Academia Glasguensi Matheseos Professore. Edinburgi: apud T. & W. Ruddimannos, MDCCXXXV. [1735]. ESTC No. T70287. Grub Street ID 294048.
  • Simson, Robert. Apollonii Pergaei locorum planorum libri II. Restituti a Roberto Simson M. D. Matheseos in Academia Glasguensi Professore. Glasguae: in aedibus academicis, excudebant Rob. et And. Foulis Academiae Typographi, A. D. MDCCXLIX. [1749]. ESTC No. T147862. Grub Street ID 194372.
  • Simson, Robert. Sectionum conicarum libri quinque. Auctore Roberto Simson, M.D. In Academia Glasguensi Matheseos Professore. Edinburgi: apud W. Sands, A. Murray, & J. Cochran. Sumptibus W. Sands, & A. Kincaid, MDCCL. [1750]. ESTC No. T101346. Grub Street ID 155224.
  • Simson, Robert. Elements of the conic sections, by the late Dr Robert Simson, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow. The first three books, translated from the Latin original. For the use of Students of Mathematics. Edinburgh: printed for Charles Elliot. Sold, in London, by T. Cadell, and J. Murray, MDCCLXXV. [1775]. ESTC No. T113192. Grub Street ID 165139.
  • Simson, Robert. Roberti Simson, M.D. matheseos nuper in academia Glasguensi professoris Opera quaedam reliqua, scilicet, I. Apollonii pergaei de sectione determinata libri II. restituti, duobus insuper libris aucti. II. Porismatum liber, quo doctrinam Hanc Veterum Geometrarum Ab Oblivione Vindicare, Et Ad Captum Hodiernorum Adumbrare Constitutum est. III. De Logarithmis Liber. IV. De Limitibus Quantitatum Et Rationum, fragmentum. V. Appendix pauca continens problemata ad Illustrandam Praecipue Veterum Geometrarum analysin. Nunc primum post auctoris mortem in lucem edita impensis quidem Philippi comitis Stanhope, cura vero jacobi clow in eadem academia philosophiae professoris, cui, auctor omnia sua manuscripta testamento legaverat. Gratum, ut speratur, geometris munus futurum, nec scriptoris, Jam Clarissimi, famae offecturum. Glasguae: in aedibus academicis, excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis academiae typographi, M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]. ESTC No. T148766. Grub Street ID 194900.
  • Simson, Robert. A treatise concerning porisms. By Robert Simson, M.D. In which the author hopes that the doctrine of porisms is sufficiently explained and for the future will be safe from oblivion. Translated from the Latin by John Lawson, B.D. Canterbury: printed and sold by Simmons and Kirkby; sold also by J. Nourse, B. White, J. Robson, in London, Merrils at Cambridge and Prince at Oxford, 1777. ESTC No. T193433. Grub Street ID 227578.
  • Simson, Robert. Elements of the conic sections, by the late Dr Robert Simson, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow. Translated from the Latin original. For the use of Students of Mathematics. Edinburgh: printed for James Dickson, and William Creech. Sold, in London, by T. Cadell, and G. G. J. & J. Robinson, M,DCC,XCII. [1792]. ESTC No. T113454. Grub Street ID 165378.
  • Euclid; Simson, Robert. The elements of Euclid, viz. the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfth. The errors, by which Theon, or others, have long ago vitiated these books, are corrected, and some of Euclid’s demonstrations are restored. Also the book of Euclid’s data, in like manner corrected. By Robert Simson, M.D. emeritus professor of mathematics in the University of Glasgow. To this tenth edition are also annexed elements of plain and spherical trigonometry. Edinburgh: printed for E. Wingrove, London, and J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1799. ESTC No. N9135. Grub Street ID 54021.