EUCLID SIMPLIFIED. COMPILED FROM THE MOST IMPORTANT By J. R. MORELL, FORMERLY H.M. INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS. HENRY S. KING & Co., 65 CORNHILL, AND 12 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. PREFATORY REMARKS. THE work here offered for the use of schools goes over almost exactly the same ground as our Euclids. But in France, as in Germany, the text of Euclid has been long since discarded as cumbrous and wordy, and his theorems and problems have been. reclassed and produced in less antiquated language than with us. It is conceived that this facilitates the study of Geometry for boys. A few improvements are also admitted, taken from what is called Modern Geometry. This appears reasonable, as it is not natural that Geometry, like other sciences, should not have advanced in the space of two thousand years. The present work gives what is best in French School Geometries, with certain additions from Modern Geometry. |