Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Prodromus of a Practical Treatise on the Mathematical Arts, 1838: Containing Directions for Surveying and Engineering
Students have made use of manuscript copies from my notes, for a kind of guide in their course of exercises, for the last four years.
Examiners, appointed by the Patron of this Institute, have followed them, mostly, for the same period.
Though it is offered as the Prodro'mus* of a full treatise on Ma thematical Arts; I have progressed too far on the way to the bourne of three score and ten, to give any assurances. [have materials enough to complete the object but there is a point by nature fixed, whence life must downward tend.
Logarithms are not used in this book for purposes of calculation.
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