Elementary Geometry New: Including Plane, Solid, and Spherical Geometry, With Practical Exercises; Edition (Classic Reprint)

Olket sS pecial orE lementary Oeometry was issued nearly twelve years ago. It contained many new features. The book has gone into use in every State in the Union, and has been tested by practical teachers in all grades of schools. This long and varied test has been watched with care by the author, and it is with the greatest pleasure that he has found that the general features of the book have been well-nigh universally approved. To make the book still more acceptable to the teachers and schools of our country, and to keep it abreast with the real adTBB cement in science and methods of teaching, as well as to make it a worthy exponent of the best style of the printers art, are some of the reasons which have led to the preparation of this edition. 1. The division into Chapters andS ections, instead of Books has been retained, as affording better means of classifying the subject-matter, and also as conforming to the usage of modem times in other literary and scientific treatises. 2. Part First of the old edition has been omitted, and the definitions and illustrations necessary to the integrity of the subject have been incorporated with the body of the work. This has been done solely in deference to the general sentiment of the teachers of our country. The author can but feel that this sentiment is wrong. That the best way to present the subject ofO eometry is to present some of its leading notions and practical facts with their uses in drawing and in common life, before attempting to reason upon them, appears to him quite clear.
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