Mensuration, Mechanical Powers, and Machinery: The Principles of Mensuration Analytically Explained, and Practically Applied to the Measurement of Lines, Superficies, and Solids; Also, a Philosophical Explanation of the Simple Mechanical Powers, and Their

Excerpt from Mensuration, Mechanical Powers, and Machinery: The Principles of Mensuration Analytically Explained, and Practically Applied to the Measurement of Lines, Superficies, and Solids; Also, a Philosophical Explanation of the Simple Mechanical Powers, and Their Application to Machinery

The evil must be, then, in the want of the www kind of text-book one that shall give the why, as well as the how one that shall be adapt ed to the capacity of the student who has no knowledge of mathematics beyond Arithmetic.

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