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Condizione: Good. Simpson, Thomas "The Doctrine and Application of Fluxions" H.D. Symonds, London, 1805 5.0 inches x 8.25 inches 442 pages Language: English Bound with: Vince, S., The Reverend "The Elements of the Conic Sections" J. Smith Cambridge, 1817 47 pages (plus three fold out plates at the end of the book) Nice clean copy in nineteenth century leather binding. Initials of Thomas Burns are on the front and back covers. Inside second front end-page cover also contains the signature of "Thomas Burns" as well as the signature of "William Harrison, 1832." Thomas Simpson (1710-1761) was born in Leicestershire. His father was a weaver and he owed his education to his own efforts. His mathematical interests were first aroused by the solar eclipse that took place in 1724, and with the aid of a fortune-telling peddler he mastered Cocker's Arithmetic and the elements of algebra. The works published by Simpson prove him to have been a man of extraordinary natural genius and extreme industry. The most important of them are his Fluxions, 1737 and 1750, with numerous applications to physics and astronomy; his Laws of Chance and his Essays, 1740; his theory of Annuities and Reversions (a branch of mathematics that is due to James Dodson, died in 1757, who was a master at Christ's Hospital, London), with tables of the value of lives, 1742; his Dissertations, 1743, in which the figure of the earth, the force of attraction at the surface of a nearly spherical body, the theory of the tides, and the law of astronomical refraction are discussed; his Algebra, 1745; his Geometry, 1747; his Trigonometry, 1748, in which he introduced the current abbreviations for the trigonometrical functions; his Select Exercises, 1752, containing the solutions of numerous problems and a theory of gunnery; and lastly, his Miscellaneous Tracts, 1754. Samuel Vince (1749-1821).…