The Doctrine of Proportion Clearly Developed, on a Comprehensive, Original, and Very Easy System: Or the Fifth Book of Euclid Simplified (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 026076065X ISBN 13: 9780260760654

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Excerpt from The Doctrine of Proportion Clearly Developed, on a Comprehensive, Original, and Very Easy System: Or the Fifth Book of Euclid Simplified

Prefaces are seldom read, because they are oftener written to magnify the merits of the books they introduce, or the doctrines which they advocate; to point out the defects, or run down the merits of others; to gratify the pride of an author, in showing the public how much he knows of the subject upon which he writes; to forward the views of publishers, in creating a sale for their publications, rather than to prepare the mind for the reception of the subject about to be introduced, by giving a general View of the matter treated of, and the manner in which it is treated, or to set the reader on his guard, that he may steer clear of the difficulties and obstructions which may retard him in his progress, as all proemial matter ought to do. For these latter purposes alone this preface is written. Therefore all who intend to study these pages would do well to read attentively the following directions and observations; for the subject upon which they are written is considered one really difficult.

Why it should be considered so, will readily be conceived when such men as Legendre, Leslie, Keith.

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