Excerpt from Elements of Geometry, Theoretical and Practical: Including Constructions by the Right Line and by the Circle; Together With the Mensuration of All the Elementary Plane Figures and Solids; Systematically Arranged, and Adapted to Public and Private Instruction
The present work has been written under the influence of opinions in which the author cannot be regarded as singular.
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