Short, but yet plain elements of geometry. Shewing how by a brief and easie method, most of what is necessary and useful in Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, and other excellent geometricians, both ancient and modern, may be understood / Written in French by F. Ignat. Gaston Pardies. And render'd into English, by John Harris.

  • Pardies, Ignace Gaston, 1636-1673.
Date:
1725
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Credit: Short, but yet plain elements of geometry. Shewing how by a brief and easie method, most of what is necessary and useful in Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, and other excellent geometricians, both ancient and modern, may be understood / Written in French by F. Ignat. Gaston Pardies. And render'd into English, by John Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 | The TRANSLATOR, & | to render line clear and intelligible ; and particu- larly what follows, which was not in fome of the former Editions. | As the fecona Book of Euclid about the Power | of Lines ; The Menfitration of the Surfaces of So- | has, Archimedes his Proportion of the infcribed | Cone ana Sphere to the circumscribing Cylinder ; the Figure of the 5 regular Bodies ; feveral Additions ana Improvements inthe Doktrine of Proportion : — The Menfurarion of the Fruftums of Pyramids and — Cones ; fome new Properties of a Right-angled Tri- ‘angle, and of the Circle, &c. T have allo left out fome more of Pardie’s Propofitions, which, om re- peated Experience in Teaching, I have found lef afeful, as alo all the Elements of plain Trigono- metry, which I bad before added to bis Ninth Books becanfe I have publife'd a finall Treatife on that Subject by it felf ; and wy chief Aim now hath been to lead the Learner into a little more abfiraëted and concife, tho a moft ufeful and univerfal Method of Demonftration ; introducing now and then a little Algebra, that I thereby engage the Reader in a Love of and and Value for that moft noble and won- derful Science: And to give him a good Foundation to build upon, aud a fufficient Rife thereby to carry Dim into Fluxions, and the new Methods of Inve- . fligation and Demonfiration, where he will find fupicient Satisfattion. Nor need he be diftouraged at the Attempt, for ‘ris well known, that I have saught feveral Perfons to underftand the elementary Parts of all Mathematicks [o well, that they have been able to go on every where, without the Affift- ance of any Mafter, in lefs than a Year's Time. \ PARDIE’S \ \ x