Elements Of Geometry With Practical Applications Scholars Choice Edition

Author : Timothy Walker
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ISBN 13 : 9781332588657
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Geometry written by Timothy Walker and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Elements of Geometry: With Practical Applications, for the Use of Schools In preparing the following work, two objects hare been kept constantly in view. First, I hare endeavoured to bring the essential principles of Geometry, within a small compass; and, secondly, to make their connexion easy to be understood. That such a book is wanted, I am convinced from personal experience. The works of Euclid and Legendre, the two most generally studied in New-England, though each is nearly perfect in its kind, are, for that very reason, suited only to the highest seminaries of learning. They cost too much and they require too much time, to be generally studied in academies and schools. Moreover they are too abstruse and difficult for the comprehension of very young pupils. All this is a necessary consequence of their fulness and perfection, as treatises on {his branch of Mathematics. They necessarily contain many propositions, which are not requisite for the understanding of subsequent branches, such as Trigonometry and Conic Sections; and which are not made use of in the more important practical applications, such as Mensuration, Surveying and Navigation. To study them would be an excellent discipline for the mind, if there were time; but this detains the pupil too long from the subsequent higher branches, which afford an equally salutary discipline for the mind, and, in addition to this, are absolutely essential to a complete practical education. Under these impressions, I have omitted all such propositions as are not absolutely necessary for the understanding the subsequent parts of a mathematical course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.