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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

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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°

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Elements of Surveying, and Navigation; with a Description of the Instruments and the necessary Tables. Revised Ed. New York. 1850. 8° DAVIES (Prof. Thomas Stephens). Original Researches in Spherical Geometry. See YOUNG (J. R.). Elements, etc.

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1847. 8°

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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. 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. 1828. 8° GUMMERE (John). A Treatise on Surveying a ... System of Plane Trigonometry. vised, and enlarged ... . Philadelphia. 1846. 8° (2 copies.) HACKLEY (Prof. Charles W.), D.D. Elementary Course of Geometry. New York. 1847. 12°

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... to which is prefixed 14th Ed., carefully re

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.

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HAMILTON (Rev. Henry Parr). Analytical Geometry. (ENCYCL. Metrop., I. 709735.)

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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. Metrop., I. 632 - 640.)

A Treatise on Geometry, and its Application to the Arts. London. 8° (LARDNER'S Cab. Cycl., 101.) LEGENDRE (Adrien Marie). ... Elements of Geometry ... Translated from the French, for the Use of the Students of the University at Cambridge, New England, by John Farrar .... New Ed., improved and enlarged. Boston. 1838. 8°

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.)

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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°

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[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

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12°

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

MATHEMATICAL Tables: Difference of Latitude and Departure: Logarithms, 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°

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°

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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°

ROBINSON (Horatio N.). Elements of Geometry, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, and Conic Sections. ... 4th Ed. Cincinnati. 1851. 8° or 12° (8. and 8. 4.)

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. ... New Haven. 1847. 8°

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°

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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°

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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.)

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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.
CHAMBERS (William and Robert).

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See Class XXVIII.

12°

.. Treasury of Knowledge. In 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. (Chambers's Educational Course, No. 1.) DUNCAN (Henry), D.D. Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons. See Class II. Part I.

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[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°

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LARDNER (Dionysius), LL.D. Popular Lectures on Science and Art, etc. See Class XI. Part I.

LIBRARY of Useful Knowledge. See [SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWledge].

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. C. Smith, M.D. Volume III. [Semi-monthly.] Boston. 1833. 12°

Continued under the title :

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SCIENTIFIC Tracts and Family Lyceum. Conducted by Jerome V. C. Smith, M.D. Vol. I.... New Series. 2 vols. Boston. 1834-35. 16°

Vol. IV. New Series.

SMITH (Jerome Van Crowninshield), M.D. Editor. See SCIENTIFIC Tracts, etc.

[SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE]. Library of Useful Knowledge. Natural Philosophy.

I. Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science. [By Henry, Lord Brougham.] Mechanics. [Three treatises, by Dionysius Lardner, LL.D.] Hydrostatics. [By Lord Brougham." Hydraulics. [By Prof. John (?) Millington.] Pneumatics. [By Dr. Lardner.] Heat. [By Mr. Ogg.] Optics. [By Sir David Brewster.] Double Refraction and Polarisation of Light. [By the same.] With an Explanation of Scientific Terms, and an Index. [By David Booth.]

II. Popular Introductions to Natural Philosophy. [By Mrs. Jane Marcet.] Newton's Optics. [By Dr. Lardner.] Description of Optical Instruments. [By Andrew Pritchard.] The Thermometer and Pyrometer. [By Prof. Thomas Stewart Traill, M.D.] Electricity. [By Peter Mark Roget, M.D.] Galvanism. [By the same.] Magnetism. [By the same.] Electro-Magnetism. [By the same. With an Explanation of Scientific Terms, and an Index. [By David Booth.]

III. Astronomy. [By Sir Benjamin Heath Malkin.] History of Astronomy. [By Richard Wellesley Rothman.] Mathematical Geography. [By Edward Lloyd.] Physical Geography [by H. J. Lloyd], and Navigation [by John, Lord Wrottesley]. With an Explanation of Scientific Terms, and an Index. [By David Booth.]

IV. Chemistry. [By Prof. John Frederic Daniell.] Botany. [By Prof. John Lindley.] Animal Physiology. [By Thomas Southwood Smith, M.D.] Animal Mechanics. [By Sir Charles Bell.] With an Analytical Index. ...

4 vols. London. 1829-32 - 34-38. 8°

Note. The several treatises in these volumes are paged independently, and were at first published separately.

SOMERVILLE (Mary). On the Connection of the Physical Sciences. From the 7th London Ed. New York. 1846. 12° or 16° (6. and 8.) (Harper's New Miscel., XIV.)

YOUNG (Prof. Thomas), M.D. A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, etc. See Class XI. Part I.

CLASS XI. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

PART I. GENERAL WORKS.

BIRD (Golding). Elements of Natural Philosophy; being an Experimental Introduction to the Study of the Physical Sciences. ... With Three Hundred and Seventy-two Illustrations. From the revised and enlarged 3d London Ed. Philadelphia. 1848. 12°

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