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2 vols. [Vol. I.,] Boston and Cambridge. 1852. [Vol. II.,] Boston. 1846. 12o

PERKINS (George R.). The Elements of Algebra, designed for the
Use of Common Schools
Utica. 1848. 12°

A Treatise on Algebra, embracing ... all the Higher Parts usually taught in Colleges; containing, moreover, the New Method of Cubic and Higher Equations, as well as the Development and Application of the more recently discovered Theorem of Sturm. Utica. 1842. 8°

The same. 2d Ed., revised, enlarged, and improved. Utica. 1847. 8°

ROBINSON (Horatio N.). An Elementary Treatise on Algebra. ... 5th Ed. Cincinnati. 1852. 12° (8. 4.)

University Ed. A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Algebra; in which the Excellencies of the Demonstrative Methods of the French, are combined with the more Practical Operations of the English; and Concise Solutions pointed out and particularly incul15th Ed. Cincinnati. 1852. 8° or 12° (8. 4. and 6.)

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SHERWIN (Thomas). 1847. 12°

The Common School Algebra. ... Boston.

An Elementary Treatise on Algebra, for the Use of Students in High Schools and Colleges. ... 3d Ed. Boston. 1849. 12° The same. 5th Ed. Boston. 1850. 12°

1846.

A Key to the Elementary Treatise on Algebra. ... Boston. 12o pp. 56. (2 copies, one dated 1848.)

SMITH (Prof. Francis H.). An Elementary Treatise on Algebra: prepared for the Use of the Cadets of the Virginia Military Institute . Philadelphia. 1850. 12°

SMYTH (Prof. William). Elements of Algebra ... . 4th Ed. Bruns

wick. 1843. 12o

A Treatise on Algebra, for the Use of Schools and Colleges. Portland. 1852. 8° or 12° (8. and 6.)

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WILLIAMS (John D.). An Elementary Treatise on Algebra ... . With attempts to simplify particularly the Solution of Cubic Equations and of the Higher Orders. ... To which is added an Appendix, on the Application of Algebra to Geometry. ... Boston. 1840. 8° or 12° (8. and 6.) pp. v., 605. +

YOUNG (Prof. John Radford). An Elementary Treatise on Algebra ... with-attempts to simplify ... particularly the Demonstration of the Binomial Theorem ...; the Solution of Equations of the Higher Orders; the Summation of Infinite Series, &c. ... 1st American Ed., with Additions and Improvements: by Samuel Ward, Junior. Philadelphia. 1832. 8°

CLASS IX. GEOMETRY AND TRIGONOMETRY; PRACTICAL MATHEMATICS, PARTICULARLY SURVEYING AND NAVIGATION.

Note. For Mechanics and Astronomy, see Class XI. Parts II. and III.

AINSLIE (John). A Treatise on Land Surveying. A new and enlarged Ed., embracing Railway, Military, Marine, and Geodetical Surveying, by Wm. Galbraith. Edinburgh and London. 1849. 8° and Plates, 4°

AIRY (Prof. George Biddell). Trigonometry. (ENCYCL. Metrop., I. 672–708.)

BARLOW (Prof. Peter). Geometry. (ENCYCL. Metrop., I. 304-368.) BIOT (Jean Baptiste). An Elementary Treatise on Analytical Geometry translated from the French of J. B. B., for the Use of the Cadets of the Virginia Military Institute By Francis H. Smith

New-York & London. 1840. 8°

CROSBY (Prof. Alpheus). First Lessons in Geometry, upon the Model of Colburn's First Lessons in Arithmetic. ... With an Introduction, by Stephen Chase Boston. 1847. 16° or 12° (8. and 6.) DAVIES (Prof. Charles), LL.D. Elements of Analytical Geometry 2d Ed. Revised and corrected. Hartford. 1839. 12° (6.) Elements of Descriptive Geometry, with their Application to Spherical Trigonometry, Spherical Projections, and Warped Surfaces. New York. 1847. 8°

Elements of Surveying, and Navigation; with a Description of the Instruments and the necessary Tables. York. 1850. 8°

DAVIES (Prof. Thomas Stephens).
Geometry. See YOUNG (J. R.).

Revised Ed. New

Original Researches in Spherical
Elements, etc.

From the last

EUCLIDES.... Elements of Geometry: containing the First Six Books of Euclid, with a Supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle, and the Geometry of Solids: to which are added, Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. By John Playfair... London Ed., enlarged. New York. 1847. 8° FARRAR (Prof. John). An Elementary Treatise on the Application of Trigonometry to Orthographic and Stereographic Projection, Dialling, Mensuration of Heights and Distances, Navigation, Nautical Astronomy, Surveying and Levelling; together with Logarithmic and other Tables; designed for the Use of the Students of the University at Cambridge, New England. ... 2d Ed. Boston. 2d Ed. Boston. 1828. 8° GUMMERE (John). A Treatise on Surveying ...: to which is prefixed a ... System of Plane Trigonometry. ... 14th Ed., carefully revised, and enlarged ... . Philadelphia. 1846. 8° (2 copies.) HACKLEY (Prof. Charles W.), D.D. Elementary Course of Geometry. New York. 1847. 12°

A Treatise on Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical, with its

Application to Navigation and Surveying, Nautical and Practical Astronomy and Geodesy, with Logarithmic, Trigonometrical and Nautical Tables. 3d Ed. New York. 1852. 8° pp. xix.,

372, 238.

HAMILTON (Rev. Henry Parr). Analytical Geometry. (ENCYCL. Metrop., I. 709 – 735.)

Conic Sections. (ENCYCL. Metrop., I. 736 – 770.)

HANN (James). The Elements of Plane Trigonometry. ... London :
John Weale. 1849. 12°

INTRODUCTION (An) to Geometry, etc. See [LOWELL (Mrs. A. C. [J.])].
INTRODUCTION (An) to the present Practice of Surveying and Levelling
By a Civil Engineer of many Years' Experience in the
Profession. London. 1846. 8°
LARDNER (Dionysius), LL.D. Geometrical Analysis. (ENCYCL. Me-
trop., I. 632 – 640.)

A Treatise on Geometry, and its Application to the Arts.
8° (LARDNER'S Cab. Cycl., 101.)

London.
LEGENDRE (Adrien Marie). ... Elements of Geometry

Translated

New Ed., im

from the French, for the Use of the Students of the University at Cambridge, New England, by John Farrar proved and enlarged. Boston. 1838. 8°

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Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry. Translated from the French of A. M. L., by David Brewster, LL.D. Revised .. by Charles Davies New York. 1848. 8° (3 copies, one

dated 1850.)

Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, from the Works of A. M. L. Revised and adapted to the Course of Mathematical Instruction in the United States, by Charles Davies, LL.D. ... . NewYork. 1852. 8° (3 copies.)

Note. Essentially different from the preceding.

See THOMSON (J. B.) Elements of Geometry, etc.

LOOMIS (Prof. Elias). Elements of Geometry and Conic Sections.
New York. 1847. 8°

[LOWELL (Mrs. Anna Cabot [JACKSON])]. An Introduction to Geometry and the Science of Form. Prepared from the most approved Prussian Text-Books. Boston. 1843. 12o

[- ]. The same. Stereotype Ed., carefully revised. Boston. 1846.

12o

MATHEMATICAL Tables: Difference of Latitude and Departure: Log

arithms, from 1 to 10,000; and Artificial Sines, Tangents, and Secants. Stereotype Ed. ... . Philadelphia. 1846. 8° (Appended to GUMMERE'S Surveying.)

NAVIGATION. See [WROTTESLEY (J.)]. NESBIT (Anthony). A Treatise on Practical Mensuration, in Ten Parts. 13th Ed., enlarged, and greatly improved. .. London.

1845. 12°

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PEIRCE (Prof. Benjamin), LL.D. An Elementary Treatise on Curves, Functions, and Forces. Volume First; containing Analytic Geometry, etc. See Class VIII.

An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry. Stereotype Ed. Boston. 1847. 12° (2 copies, one dated 1851.)

An Elementary Treatise on Plane & Spherical Trigonometry, with their Applications to Navigation, Surveying, Heights and Distances, and Spherical Astronomy, and particularly adapted to explaining the Construction of Bowditch's Navigator, and the Nautical Almanac. 3d Ed., with Additions. Boston. 1845. 12°

The same.

New Ed., revised, with Additions. Boston and Cambridge. 1852. Large 12° (6.)

PERKINS (George R.). tions. Hartford.

Elements of Geometry, with Practical Applica1849. 12°

PLAYFAIR (Prof. John). See EUCLIDES. ... Elements of Geometry,

etc. 1847. 8°

Elements of Geometry, Plane and Spherical

ROBINSON (Horatio N.).
Trigonometry, and Conic Sections.

8° or 12° (8. and 8. 4.)

4th Ed. Cincinnati. 1851.

A Treatise on Surveying and Navigation: uniting the Theoretical, the Practical, and the Educational Features of these Subjects. ... Cincinnati. 1852. 12° (8. 4.)

SCRIBNER (J. M.). Scribner's Engineers' and Mechanics' Companion, etc. See Class XIV. Part III.

SIMMS (Frederick W.). A Treatise on the principal Mathematical Instruments employed in Surveying, Levelling, & Astronomy: explaining their Construction, Adjustments and Use. ... 2d American Ed., from the 2d (improved and enlarged) London Ed. Revised, and with Additions, by J. H. Alexander. Baltimore. [1844?] 8° STANLEY (Prof. Anthony Dumond). Tables of Logarithms of Numbers, and of Logarithmic Lines, Tangents, and Secants, to Seven Places of Decimals; together with other Tables of frequent Use in the Study of Mathematics, and in Practical Calculations. Haven. 1847. 8°

New

THOMSON (James Bates). Elements of Geometry on the Basis of Dr. Brewster's Legendre. To which is added a Book on Proportion; with Notes and Illustrations ... . New Haven. 1844. 12° VOGDES (William). An Elementary Treatise on Mensuration and Practical Geometry; together with numerous Problems of Practical Importance in Mechanics. ... Philadelphia. 1847. 12°

WHITLOCK (Prof. George Clinton). Elements of Geometry, Theoretical and Practical: containing a full Explanation of the Construction and Use of Tables, and a New System of Surveying. ... New York. 1849. 8°

WILSON (Rev. Richard). A System of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; to which is added a Treatise on Logarithms. ... Cambridge [Eng.]. 1831. 8°

[WROTTESLEY (John)], Baron. Navigation. [London. 1828.] 8° pp. 33. (LIBR. of Useful Knowl., Nat. Phil., III.)

YOUNG (Prof. John Radford). Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, with its Applications to ... Navigation and Nautical Astronomy; with the Logarithmic and Trigonometrical Tables. By J. R. Young To which are added some original Researches in Spherical Geometry; by T. S. Davies. Revised and corrected by J. D. Williams A new Ed. Philadelphia. 1848. 8° Mathematical Tables; comprehending the Logarithms of all Numbers from 1 to 36,000; also the Natural and Logarithmic Sines and Tangents; computed to Seven Places of Decimals ...; with several other Tables Revised and corrected by J. D. Williams Philadelphia. 1848. 8° (Appended to YOUNG'S Trigo

nometry.)

PHYSICAL SCIENCE.

(Classes X. — XIII.)

CLASS X. GENERAL WORKS ON THE PHYSICAL SCI

ENCES.

Note. For the History of the Physical Sciences, see Class XXVIII.

ANNUAL of Scientific Discovery, etc. See Class XXVIII.

CHAMBERS (William and Robert).

In

Treasury of Knowledge. Three Parts. I. Elementary Lessons in Common Things. II. Practical Lessons on Common Objects. III. Introduction to the Sciences. Edited by D. M. Reese, M. D. New-York. 1853. 12o (Chambers's Educational Course, No. 1.)

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DUNCAN (Henry), D.D. Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons. See Class II. Part I.

[GOODRICH (Samuel Griswold)]. A Glance at the Physical Sciences; or the Wonders of Nature, in Earth, Air, and Sky: by the Author of Peter Parley's Tales. Boston. 1849. 16° or 18° (8. and 6.) (CABINET Libr., 13.)

HUNT (Robert). The Poetry of Science, or Studies of the Physical
Phenomena of Nature. London. 1848. 8°

LARDNER (Dionysius), LL.D.
etc. See Class XI. Part I.
LIBRARY of Useful Knowledge. See [SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE].

Popular Lectures on Science and Art,

PARLEY (Peter), pseudon. See [GOODRICH (Samuel Griswold)].

SCIENTIFIC Tracts, designed for Instruction and Entertainment, and adapted to Schools, Lyceums, and Families. Conducted by Jerome V. Č. Smith, M.D. Volume III. [Semi-monthly.] Boston. 1833. 12°

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