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THIS book is intended chiefly for those who have mastered the beginnings of algebra and Euclid, and so is very elementary. The method employed throughout is that of using squares, and preparatory exercises are first given to show the student the different purposes to which they may be applied with facility. Proportion and the determination of areas are the subjects of the first two chapters, followed by a chapter on the tracing of paths of projectiles, with various data. The sections of the cone, such, as the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola, are next described, with various methods of tracing them. The book contains a great number of numerical examples, and concludes with a chapter on the higher graphs and curves of observation.
Plotting, or Graphic Mathematics.
By R. Wormell (London: Waterlow and Sons, Limited, 1888.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 38, 172 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038172a0
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