Euclid's Elements of Geometry

Abstract

IF Euclid is to continue as the foundation of geometrical teaching in our schools, this work must b very warmly welcomed. The exact order of Euclid is followed, but (as the editors inform us) with no special regard to the exact words of the translation of Simson (who for a moment becomes “Simpson” in the foot-note on p. 79). There is also a complete absence of the mechanical chopping up of each proposition into separate blocks under the heads of “general enunciation,” “particular enunciation,” “hypothesis,” “construction,” “to prove,” “proof,” “conclusion,” which in some textbooks, and in the minds of many boys, has reduced the whole subject to an artificial jargon.

Euclid's Elements of Geometry.

Books i.–iv., vi. and xi. By Charles Smith, and Sophie Bryant. Pp. viii + 460. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1901.) Price 4s. 6d.