Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry: For Colleges, Schools, and Private Students (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry: For Colleges, Schools, and Private Students

The science of Elementary Geometry, after remaining nearly stationary for two thousand years, has, for a century past, been making decided progress. This is owing, mainly, to two causes: discoveries in the higher mathematics have thrown new light upon the elements of the science; and the demands of schools, in all enlightened nations, have called out many Works by able mathematicians and skillful teachers.

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