Simson's

So have other approaches become relics of a bygone culture, for example the neoconservative dream of the 'medieval concept of order,' which pervades Otto von Simson's book on the Gothic cathedral, and the neoplatonic reading of 'Early Netherlandish Painting' by which Erwin Panofsky identified 'disguised symbolism' in many works of art.

Images Behind the Wall Willibald Sauerländer 2002

A letter from Dr. Robert Simson, the editor of Euclid and the restorer of the Porisms, to John Nourse of the Strand, is missing from an otherwise unbroken series, extending from 1 Jan. 1751 to near the close of Simson's life.

Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849 Various

(Half turning) By the by, I saw him down the lane at the widow Simson's.

Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet Olive Tilford Dargan 1918

Simson's voice, commanding, threatening, was raised above all others, a shrill, imperious note in a rising and falling babel of sound.

Behind the line A story of college life and football Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

For fifty years Simson's life was spent almost entirely within the two quadrangles of Glasgow College; between the rooms he worked and slept in, the tavern at the gate, where he ate his meals, and the College gardens, where he took his daily walk of a fixed number of hundred paces, of which, according to some well-known anecdotes, he always kept count as he went, even under the difficulties of interruption.

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

Arthur, when, on the day after Simson's visit, he heard that the list was closed without him, kicked Simson, and felt on the whole rather glad.

The Master of the Shell Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Simson's edition of _Euclid_, in 1746 and 1756, probably to some extent assisted the movement; but the most active elements at work were undoubtedly the mathematical periodicals of the time, aided by such powerful auxiliaries as Simpson's _Select Exercises_ (1752) and his other treatises previously mentioned.

Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

In most other trades you find generous men who are anxious to sell you their wares for your own welfare; but even a Jew will not urge Simson's Euclid on you with an affectionate assurance that you will have pleasure in reading it, and that he wishes he had twenty more of the article, so much is it in request.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

The mathematical class will consist of 15 who will study Simson's Euclid, Simson's Algebra, Trigonometry, Surveying, Navigation, and if required, Conic Sections, Projection of the Sphere & Nicholson's Nat.

The Harris Letters 1800

For example, the perpendiculars drawn to the three sides of a triangle from any point on its circumcircle intersect the sides in three collinear points (Simson's invariant).

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