Births on August 20

Thomas Simpson

Born on August 20, 1710

Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1761)

Thomas Simpson FRS (20 August 1710 – 14 May 1761) was a British mathematician and inventor known for the eponymous Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. The attribution, as often in mathematics, can be debated: this rule had been found 100 years earlier by Johannes Kepler, and in German it is called Keplersche Fassregel.

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Events on 1710

10 Apr

Copyright
The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.
20 Aug

Battle of Saragossa
War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
13 Oct

Siege of Port Royal (1710)
Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.

Births on August 20

Thomas Simpson

Born on August 20, 1710

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