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Mathematical Correspondence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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[The correspondence which is here printed was bought by me on the 28th of March 1887 at the sale of the Gibson-Craig collection of Scottish MSS.

Simson's letters, which are beautifully written, seem all to have passed through the post, but Stewart's letters are, I conjecture, merely the drafts of what he proposed to send. The handwriting of the latter, though legible, is not elegant, and there are frequent erasures. I have scrupulously respected, in all the letters, the spelling, the punctuation (or want of it), the use or disuse of capitals, and I have made no attempt to improve the style.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1902

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page 8 note * See Robert Simson's Loci Plani (Glasguae, 1749), p. 227.

page 10 note * This is the first proposition of Matthew Stewart's Some General Theorems (Edinburgh, 1746). Stewart's demonstration is different from Simson's.

page 24 note * This is quoted from Halley's Apollonius de Sectione Rationis (Oxonii, 1706), p. xxxriii.

page 28 note * Peteraburgh.

page 35 note * See Matthew Stewart's Some General Theorems, pp. 20, 21

page 35 note † See Matthew Stewart's Some General Theorems, pp. 65, 66

page 36 note * See Matthew Stewart's Some General Theorems pp. 104, 105

page 36 note † See Matthew Stewart's Some General Theorems pp. 109-110

page 36 note ‡ See Matthew Stewart's Some General Theorems P. 112