Mathematics. Collections.
No. 2 in **E.193.21=No. 2 in **Adams 220.3 Simpson, Thomas. 1710-1761.
Mathematical dissertations on a variety of physical and analytical subjects. London: printed for T. Woodward ... 1743. viii, 168 pp. 4°. Contents. — True figure of the earth. — Attraction at the surface of bodies nearly spherical. — Determination of the meridional parts. — Theory of astronomical refractions. — New method for approximating the roots of equations in numbers.—New methods for the summation of series. — New improvements in the inverse method of fluxions.
[The first copy is kept on the Special Libraries Floor.]
 
This card was printed at the Boston
Public Library, October 26, 1908. G8468 — Mathematics. Colls.