See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

MARTIN EDUARD VON See also:

• MARTIN EDUARD VON SIMSON (1810-1899)
• SIMSON, ROBERT (1687-1768)

SIMSON (1810-1899)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German jurist and politician, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg, in See also:

• PRUSSIA
• PRUSSIA (Ger. Preussen; Lat. Borussia)

Prussia, on the loth of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 181o, of Jewish parentage . After the usual course at the gymnasium of his native See also:

• TOWN

town, he entered its university in 1826 as a student of See also:

• JURISPRUDENCE (Lat. jurisprudenlia, knowledge of law, from jus, right, and prudentia, from providere, to foresee)
• JURISPRUDENCE, COMPARATIVE

jurisprudence, and specially of See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law . He continued 'his studies at See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin and See also:

• BONN

Bonn, and, having graduated See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor See also:

• JURIS

juris, attended lectures at the Ecole de See also:

• DROIT (Fr. for " right," from Lat. directus, straight)

Droit in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . Returning to Konigsberg in 1831 he established himself as a Privatdozent in Roman law, becoming two years later extraordinary, and in 1836 See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary, See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor in that See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty at the university . Like many other distinguished German jurists, •pari passu with his professorial activity, See also:

• SIMSON, MARTIN EDUARD VON (1810-1899)
• SIMSON, ROBERT (1687-1768)

Simson followed the judicial See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the legal profession, and, passing rapidly through the subordinate stages of auscultator and See also:

• ASSESSOR (Lat. assessare, assidere, to sit by)

assessor, became adviser (See also:

• RATH, GERHARD VOM (183o-1888)

Rath) to the Landgericht in 1846 . In this See also:

• YEAR

year he stood for the See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation of Konigsberg in the See also:

• NATIONAL

National See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly at See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort-on-See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

Main, and on his See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election was immediately appointed secretary, and in the course of the same year became successively its See also:

• VICE

vice-See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president and president . In his capacity of president he appeared, on 3rd See also:

• APRIL

April 1849, in Berlin at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of a deputation of the Frankfort See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament to announce to See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William IV. his election as German See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

Emperor by the representatives of the See also:

• PEOPLE

people . The king, either apprehensive of a rupture with See also:

• AUSTRIA
• AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ")
• AUSTRIA, UPPER (Ger. Oberosterreich or Osterreich ob der Enns, " Austria above the river Enns ")

Austria, or fearing detriment to the prerogatives of the Prussian See also:

• CROWN

crown should he he laboured . His next publications were A See also:

• TREATISE

Treatise on the Nature and See also:

• LAWS

Laws of See also:

• CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

Chance (1740); Essays on Several Curious and Useful • Subjects in Speculative and Mixed Mathematicks (1740) ; The See also:

• DOCTRINE

Doctrine of Annuities and Reversions deduced from See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General and Evident Principles (1942); and Mathematical See also:

• DISSERTATIONS

Dissertations on a Variety of See also:

• PHYSICAL

Physical and See also:

• ANALYTICAL

Analytical Subjects (1743) . Soon after the publication of his Essays he was chosen a member of the Royal See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy at See also:

• STOCKHOLM

Stockholm; in 1743 he was appointed professor of See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics in the Royal Military Academy at See also:

• WOOLWICH

Woolwich; and in 1745 he was admitted a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow of the Royal Society of See also:

• LONDON

London . In 1745 he published A Treatise of See also:

• ALGEBRA (from the Arab. al-jebr wa'l-mugabala, transposition and removal [of terms of an equation], the name of a treatise by Mahommed ben Musa al-Khwarizmi)

Algebra, with an appendix containing the construction of geometrical problems, and in 1747 the Elements of See also:

• PLANE

Plane See also:

• GEOMETRY

Geometry . The latter See also:

• BOOK

book, unlike many others with the same See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title, is not an edition of See also:

• EUCLID
• EUCLID [EucLEIDES]

Euclid's Elements, but, an See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent treatise, and the solutions of problems contained in it (and in the appendix to the Algebra as well) are in general exceedingly ingenious .

In his See also:

• TRIGONOMETRY (from Gr. rpiywvov, a triangle, /ATpov, measure)

Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical, with the Construction and Application of Logarithms, which appeared in 1948, there is a tolerably See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform use of contractions for the words sine, tangent, &c., prefixed to the See also:

• SYMBOL (Gr. o-uµ(3oXov, a sign)

symbol of the See also:

• ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle . The Doctrine and Application of Fluxions (1750) was more comprehensive than his earlier See also:

• WORK

work on the same subject and was so different that he wished it to be considered as a new book and not as a second 'edition of the former . In 1752 appeared Select Exercises for See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

Young Proficients in the Mathematicks, and in 1757 his See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

Miscellaneous Tracts on Some Curious and Very Interesting Subjects in See also:

• MECHANICS

Mechanics, Physical See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

Astronomy and Speculative Mathematics, the last and perhaps the greatest of all his See also:

• WORKS

works . From the year 1735 he had been a frequent contributor to the Ladies' See also:

• DIARY

Diary, an See also:

• ANNUAL

annual publication partly devoted to the See also:

• SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution of mathematical problems, and from 1754 till 176o inclusive he was the editor of it . He died at See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

Market See also:

• BOSWORTH, JOSEPH (1789–1876)

Bosworth on the 14th of May 1761 . See See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• HUTTON, CHARLES (1737-1823)
• HUTTON, JAMES (1726-1797)
• HUTTON, RICHARD HOLT (1826-1897)

Hutton, Mathematical and Philosophical See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary (1815) .