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Simson, Robert
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Mathematician, born in Ayrshire; abandoned his intention of entering the Church and devoted himself to the congenial study of mathematics, of which he became professor in the old university at Glasgow, a position he held for 50 years; was the author of the well-known "Elements of Euclid," but is most celebrated as the first restorer of Euclid's lost treatise on "Porisms" (1687-1768).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Simson, Robert'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/simson-robert.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Simson, Robert'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/simson-robert.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
