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I DESIRE to offer some suggestions respecting the form and arrangement of the elementary definitions and propositions of the Euclidian geometry. It has appeared to me that the recent German textbooks upon the subject have made a great improvement upon the older system, as developed in the works of Euclid and Legendre. I have but recently obtained the “Syllabus of the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching” and compared it with the corresponding parts of a summary of my own, the latter still in an inchoate state.
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NEWCOMB, S. The Fundamental Definitions and Propositions of Geometry, With Especial Reference to the Syllabus of the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching . Nature 21, 293–295 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021293a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/021293a0