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Simpson, Thomas. A New Treatise of Fluxions : wherein the direct 

 and inverse method are demonstrated after a new, clear, and 

 concise manner, with their application to Physics and Astro- 

 nomy. . 4°. London, 1737. 



Essays on several curious and useful subjects in speculative and 



mix'd Mathematicks. 4°. London, 1740. 



The nature and laws of Chance. 4°. London, 1740. 



The doctrine of Annuities and Reversions deduced from general 



and evident principles, with useful Tables shewing the values of 

 single and joint lives, &c. ; [with An Appendix. . . . ] 



2 pts. in 1 vol. 8°. London, 1742-43. 



The second "edition. 8°. London, 1775. 



Mathematical Dissertations on a variety of Physical and Analy- 

 tical subjects ; containing a demonstration of the figure which the 

 Earth or any planet must acquire from its rotation ; a general 

 investigation of the attraction at the surfaces of bodies nearly 

 spherical ; a determination of the lengths of the several degrees of 

 the meridian ; an investigation of the height of tides in the ocean ; 

 a new theory of astronomical-refractions ; a new method for 

 approximating the roots of equations in numbers ; several new 

 methods for the summation of series ; some new improvements in 

 the inverse method of fluxions. 4°. London, 1743. 



Select Exercises for young proficients in the Mathematicks, 



containing problems, the theory of gunnery, a new method for 

 finding the roots of equations, a short account of the nature of 

 fluxions, the valuation of annuities. 8°. London, 1752. 



— A new edition, revised and corrected by J. H. Hearding. 



8°. London, 1810. 



— — Miscellaneous Tracts on some curious and very interesting 

 subjects in Mechanics, Physical Astronomy, and Speculative 

 Mathematics. 4°. London, 1757. 



— — Trigonometry, plane and spherical, with the construction and 

 application of Logarithms. The second edition. 8°. London, 1765. 



The fifth edition. 8°. London, 1799. 



A Supplement to the doctrine of Annuities and Reversions. 



8°. London, 1791. 



The doctrine and application of Fluxions ... to which is pre- 

 fixed an account of his Life, revised and corrected by William 

 Davis. 8°. London, [1805]. 



A new edition, adapted by copious appendixes to the 



present state of science by a graduate of Cambridge. 



2 vols, in 1. 8°. London, 1823. 



Elements of Geometry, with their application to the mensura- 

 tion of superfices and solids, to the determination of the maxima 

 and minima of geometrical quantities ... A new edition, with an 

 appendix containing a description of the analytical and synthetical 



