Account of the life and writings of Robert Simson, M.D., late professor of mathematics in the University of Glasgow / By the Rev. William Trail.

London : [printed Bath: R. Cruttwell for G. and W. Nicol], 1812.

4 unnumbered pages, vii, 190 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : portrait ; (4to)

Title vignette: Portrait of Robert Simson

Appendices.--1. Account of the mathematical collections of Pappus, with a summary of the contents of the several books.--II. Two passages from Pappus, the Greek from the Savilian mss. at Oxford, collated with the ms. bull. and the Latin from Commadine's translation.--III. Dr. Simson's translation of the general description of Euclid's Porisms in the preface to the seventh book of Pappus.