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Excerpt from Practical Geometry, or a New and Easy Method of Treating That Art: Whereby the Practice of It Is Render'd Plain, and Familiar, and the Student Is Directed in the Most Easy Manner Thro' the Several Parts and Progressions of It
Eometry had its original among the Egyp tian, who were put under a nece?i of inventing fome filch art to remedy the difo era, that commonly happen'd in their lands, by the over?owing of the Nile, whi eh carried away their land-marks, and eeaced the limits of their mheri tances.
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