Practical Geometry, or a New and Easy Method of Treating That Art: Whereby the Practice of It Is Render'd Plain, and Familiar, and the Student Is ... and Progressions of It
Excerpt from Practical Geometry, or a New and Easy Method of Treating That Art
Eometry had its original among the Egyp tian, who were put under a nece?i of inventing fome filch art to remedy the difo era, that commonly happen'd in their lands, by the over?owing of the Nile, whi eh carried away their land-marks, and eeaced the limits of their mheri tances.