Swedish translation of Scottish mathematician Robert Robert Simson (1687-1768) was a Scottish mathematician. His work on conic sections was first published in Latin in Edinburgh, "Sectionum conicarum libri V", nearly 30 years earlier. The Swedish translation pre-dates the first English-language version of 1775. It was done by Baron Fredric Palmquist (1720-1771), who as a young man had become paralysed from the waist down and spent the rest of his life working as a fortification engineer and writing textbooks in mathematics and mechanics, as well as translating works such as these. He appears to have written his own work on the subject in 1752 "Coniske sectionerne".