SIMSON (Robert). Euclid’s Data, Improved and Expanded. Trans - Lot 218

SIMSON (Robert). Euclid’s Data, Improved and Expanded. Translated from the English and accompanied by a collection of geometric problems solved according to the analytical method of the ancients, by Johann Christoph Schwab. Stuttgart, Cotta, 1780. In-12, half-basane with slightly crushed corners, ribbed spine decorated with gold fillets, scattered foxing, corners and headbands rubbed. [22 ff.], 260 pp., 12 folding plates. First edition of the German translation. Robert Simson (1687–1768), a Scottish geometer, spent his entire career at the University of Glasgow. Almost all of his research focused on ancient geometry, and he “is best known for his attempts to solve Euclid’s porisms” (Larousse).