Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Elements of Geometry, Theoretical and Practical: Containing a Full Explanation of the Construction and Use of Tables, and a New System of Surveying
In pursuing quite out to the end of our geometrical studies, as well as at the beginning, the synthetic and undevelopable methods of the ancients, we acquire little or no power of going alone we get some geometry, it is true, but still -remain almost desti tute of that education in analysis which is far more important. Why, in investigating the doctrines of forms, should we studiously keep out of sight the general principles of quantity, as if no such principles existed, when even Euclid himself could proceed but a little way without stopping to construct his, to us, clumsy book of proportion, the best and only algebra at his command?
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