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Two manuscript volumes on theoretical and practical geometry. Both volumes are illustrated with fine pen and ink geometric diagrams for theoretical or practical application of geometrical principles. Many diagrams are shaded or colored. Additional watercolor drawings of flowers and birds are present at the end problems. The first volume contains the origin and function of geometry and the history and uses of geometry. The main body of the first volume considers definitions of geometry with Euclidean subjects and 40 problems; Methods for tracing figures, angles, lines on a terrain with 31 problems; Practice of geometry; Treatise of development of bodies and the geometrical elevation with 21 problems, and a section on Treatise of trigonometry and practice with 5 propositions and corollaries. The second volume is on practical geometry and measuring, with numerous problems.
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