Non-Euclidean Geometry

1922 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 445-459
Author(s):  
W. H. Bussey
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Theory ◽  
Elementary Geometry ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Non Euclidean Geometry ◽  
Pure Mathematics ◽  
Standard Text ◽  
Euclid’S Elements ◽  
Systematic Exposition ◽  
Standard Text Book

About 2200 years ago there was published in Greek one of the most remarkable books of all times, Euclid's “Elements of Geometry”. It contains a systematic exposition of the leading propositions of elementary geometry and the elementary theory of numbers. It was at once adopted by the Greeks as the standard text book on pure mathematics. The parts that relate to elementary geometry were the standard text book for centuries and are still in use in England to-day. The English school boy does not say “Geometry”, he says “Euclid”. On the Continent of Europe “Euclid” was superseded by Legendre's “Elements of Geometry”, the first edition of which was published in 1794. A translation into English by a man named Davies was widely used in this country. (It was used at Columbia University as late as 1905). But that has been superseded by more modern American texts of which there is now a large number.

scholarly journals A PLEA FOR A STANDARD TEXT-BOOK OF SURGERY FOR EXAMINATION PURPOSES.

The Lancet ◽  
1922 ◽  
Vol 199 (5152) ◽  
pp. 1066-1067
Author(s):  
CharlesA. Morton
Keyword(s):  
Text Book ◽  
Standard Text ◽  
Standard Text Book

The Origins of The Canterbury Convocation

1952 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Current Standard ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Standard Text ◽  
Church Law ◽  
The Church ◽  
Standard Text Book

In the current standard text-book of English Church Law appear the following statements about the origin of Convocation: ‘The Convocation, in its origin, was for the purpose of taxation and no other; it was altogether unlike the Convocation of the foreign synods, which were composed solely of the bishops, collected to declare what was the doctrine, or what should be the discipline, of the Church. It is easy, however, to conceive how the clergy, when once convoked, gradually assumed the same power as existed in those foreign synods to which their Convocation might appear to bear some analogy.’ In examining this quotation we must consider, (a) the composition of the foreign synods; (b) their relation if any to the English Convocation; (c) the taxing functions of both bodies.

A STANDARD TEXT-BOOK OF SURGERY FOR EXAMINATION PURPOSES.

The Lancet ◽  
1922 ◽  
Vol 199 (5154) ◽  
pp. 1167-1168
Author(s):  
Alexander Miles ◽  
J. Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Text Book ◽  
Standard Text ◽  
Standard Text Book

scholarly journals A Manual of Pharmacology—and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-254
Keyword(s):  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Reference Book ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Materia Medica ◽  
United State ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Standard Text ◽  
Made In ◽  
Standard Text Book

A new edition of this standard text book after six years is most welcome. The author has presented a change throughout in keeping with advances made in this field. These changes have been extensive, and the revisions have been adequate to cover them all. The format of the new edition features a double column page to facilitate reading. The author is Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Materia Medica, School of Medicine, Western Reverse University. Changes in the United State Pharmacopoeia, 13th revision, are included in the text. The book continues to be an essential reference book.

scholarly journals Some Criticisms of Robert Simson by Sir T. L. Heath

1925 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Gibson
Keyword(s):  
English Text ◽  
Elementary Geometry ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Difference Of Opinion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Euclid’S Elements ◽  
Greek Geometry

Sir T. L. Heath's translation of The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, with its Introduction and Commentary, is not merely a worthy tribute to the lasting merits of Euclid's work, but is at the same time a most valuable history of elementary geometry; the language in which he describes the character of Camerer's edition of Euclid's first six books is even more applicable to his own: “No words of praise would be too warm for this veritable encyclopaedia of information.” There may, however, be room for difference of opinion on matters of detail, and I propose in this note to call attention to one or two passages in which I think he is in error in his criticism of Simson, whose edition of Euclid formed the basis of so many English text-books and kept alive the traditions of Greek geometry in this country long after Euclid's Elements had disappeared as a text-book on the Continent.

scholarly journals XIX.—Ptolemy's Geography of the British Isles

Archaeologia ◽  
1885 ◽  
Vol 48 (02) ◽  
pp. 379-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Second Century ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Standard Text ◽  
Standard Text Book

To the Alexandrian Claudius Ptolemy, who flourished about the middle of the second century after Christ, belongs the honour of having achieved the final systematisation of the results of ancient research in the two sciences of astronomy and geography. His treatise on Geography continued to be the standard text-book on its own subject, as his Almagest was the standard text-book on astronomy, until the brilliant discoveries of the fifteenth century called the attention of Europe to their defects.

scholarly journals The Standard Text-Book on Oceanography

1908 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 300
Author(s):  
H. R. M.
Keyword(s):  
Text Book ◽  
Standard Text ◽  
Standard Text Book

scholarly journals A PLEA FOR A STANDARD TEXT-BOOK OF SURGERY FOR EXAMINATION PURPOSES.

The Lancet ◽  
1922 ◽  
Vol 199 (5155) ◽  
pp. 1219-1220
Author(s):  
CharlesA. Morton
Keyword(s):  
Text Book ◽  
Standard Text ◽  
Standard Text Book
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