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THE portions of the title-pages we have above given sufficiently indicate the scope of the two works under review and the measure of acceptance they have met with. As we have already given an account of the former work it will not be necessary to give any detailed account of it now. It has been considerably improved by the addition of some eighteen pages of new matter, consisting of a slight rearrangement of Section I., which treats of planes, the addition of a section (IV.) on the sphere, which is almost entirely new to the work, and some slight changes in the articles on the Ellipse and Hyperbola. The result is a close approximation to the views we expressed in our previous notice and the book can be recommended as an excellent, if not the only English, treatise suited to the requirements of candidates for the first B.A. Pass Examination of the London University. We point out an obvious slip of inscribed for circumscribed circles, on p. 55; in the fifth paragraph, p. 56, all the A's but one should be accented; the last exercise, on p. 68, is misplaced, and repeated in its proper place, as Exercise 29 on p. 71; other minor slips can be easily corrected.
Solid Geometry and Conic Sections, with Appendices on Transversals, and Harmonic Division, for the Use of Schools.
By J. M. Wilson Second Edition. (Macmillan and Co., 1873.)
Elementary Geometry,
Books i. ii. iii., following the “Syllabus of Geometry,” prepared by the Geometrical Association. By J. M. Wilson. Third Edition. (Same publishers, 1873.)
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T., R. Solid Geometry and Conic Sections, with Appendices on Transversals, and Harmonic Division, for the Use of Schools Elementary Geometry . Nature 9, 81 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/009081a0
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