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See also:SIMSON, See also:ROBERT (1687-1768) , Scottish mathematician, the eldest son of See also:John Simson of Kirktonhill in See also:Ayrshire, was See also:born on the 4th of See also:October 1687. He was intended for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, but the See also:bent of his mind was towards See also:mathematics, and, when a prospect opened of his succeeding to the mathematical See also:chair at the university of See also:Glasgow, he p eceeded to See also:London for further study. After a See also:year in London he returned to Glasgow, and in 1711 was appointed by the university to the professorship of mathematics, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which he retained until 1761. He died
on the 1st of October 1768.
Simson's contributions to mathematical knowledge took the See also:form of See also:critical See also:editions and commentaries on the See also:works of the See also:ancient geometers. The first of his published writings is a See also:paper in the Philosophical Transactions (1723, vol. xl. p. 330) on See also:Euclid's Porisms (q.v.). Then followed Sectionum conicarum libri V. (See also:Edinburgh, 1735), a second edition of which, with additions, appeared in 1750. The first three books of this See also:treatise were translated into See also:English, and several times printed as The Elements of the Conic Sections. In 1749 was published Apollonii Pergaei locorum planorum libri II., a restoration of See also:Apollonius's lost treatise, founded on the lemmas given in the seventh See also:book of Pappus's Mathematical Collection. In 1756 appeared, both in Latin and in English, the first edition of his Euclid's Elements. This See also:work, which contained only the first six and the See also:eleventh and twelfth books, and to which in its English version he added the Data in 1762, was for See also:long the See also:standard See also:text of Euclid in See also:England. After his See also:death restorations of Apollonius's treatise De See also:section determinata and of Euclid's treatise De Pori tnatibus were printed for private circulation in
R.-See also:SIN 137
1776 at the expense of See also:Earl See also:Stanhope, in a See also:volume with the See also:title Roberti Simson See also:opera quaedam reliqua. The volume contains also See also:dissertations on Logarithms and on the Limits of Quantities and Ratios, and a few problems illustrative of the ancient geometrical See also:analysis.
See W. Trail, See also:Life and Writings of Robert Simson (1812); C. See also:Hutton, Mathematical and Philosophical See also:Dictionary (1815). SIMSON, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1800-1847), Scottish portrait, landscape and subject painter, was born at See also:Dundee in 1800. He studied under See also:Andrew See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson at the Trustees' See also:Academy, Edinburgh, and his See also:early pictures—landscape and marine subjects—found a ready See also:sale. He next turned his See also:attention to figure See also:painting, producing in 1829 the " Twelfth of See also:August," which was followed in 183o by " Sportsmen Regaling " and a " Highland See also:Deer-stalker." In the latter year he was elected a member of the Scottish Academy; and, having acquired some means by portrait-painting, he spent three years in See also:Italy, and on his return in 1838 settled in London, where he exhibited his " Camaldolese See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk showing See also:Relics," his " See also:Cimabue and See also:Giotto," his " Dutch See also:Family," and his " See also:Columbus and his See also:Child " at the See also:Convent of See also:Santa Maria la Rabida. He died in London on the 29th of August 1847. Simson is greatest as a landscapist; his " Solway See also:Moss—Sunset," exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy of 1831 and now in the See also:National See also:Gallery, Edinburgh, ranks as one of the finest examples of the early Scottish school of landscape. His See also:elder See also:brother See also:George (1791-1862), portrait-painter, was also a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, and his younger brother See also:David (d. 1874) practised as a landscape-painter.
End of Article: SIMSON, ROBERT (1687-1768)
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