Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euc, With a Supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle and the Geometry of Solids, to Which Added, Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry - Hardcover

John Playfair

9780484136990: Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euc, With a Supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle and the Geometry of Solids, to Which Added, Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

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ISBN 10: 0484136992 ISBN 13: 9780484136990

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euc, With a Supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle and the Geometry of Solids, to Which Added, Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

In the second Book, also, some algebraic signs have been introduced, for the sake of representing more readily the addition and subtraction of the rectangles on which the demonstrations depend. The use of such sym helical writing, in translating from an original, where no symbols are used, cannot, I think, be regarded as an unwarrantable liberty for, if by that means the translation is not made into English, it is made into that univer sal language so much sought after in all the sciences, but destined, it would seem, to be enjoyed only by the mathematical.

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