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ERRATA FOR CAJORI'S HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS. Pages xi to xiii, Nos. 47, 67, 84, 88, 97. For Gedächniss read Gedächtniss. No. 50.&emsp;For 1887 read 1877. No. 65.&emsp;For fur read für. No. 76. second line. For der read für. No. 96.&emsp;For Bendiconti read Rendiconti.

Page 3, line 4 up. For accomplishment, sacrificed read accomplishment, is said to have sacrificed.

Page 31, line 10. For compass read compasses.

Page 36, line 2 up. For VII. read XII.

Page 39, lines 1 to 6 up. Chasles's or Simson's definition of a Porism is preferable to Proclus's, given in the text. See Gow, pp. 217-221.

Page 52, line 3. For About 155 B.C. read About 155 B.C., or, according to M. Cantor, about 100 B.C.

Page 62, line 1. For geometries read geometers.

Page 75, line 19. For $$\scriptstyle{\psi}$$ read $$\scriptstyle{\iota\!\!\!\upsilon}$$.

Page 106, line 1. For Mohammed ben Musa Hovarezmi read Mohammed ben Musa Al Hovarezmi, or read Muhammed ibn Musa Alchwarizmi.

Page 106, line 3. For 814 read 813.

Page 106, line 11. For Hovarezmi read Al Hovarezmi, or read Alchwarizmi.

Page 111, line 14. For Fahri des Al Karhi read Abu Bekr Mohammed ben Al Hasan Al Karhi.

Page 130, line 2. For Casso read Cassio.

Page 134, line 14. For small series read large series.

Page 142, line 18. For go read got.

Page 174, line 26. For Midorge read Mydorge.

Page 178, line 5; also, pp. 288, 289. For Branchion read Brianchon.

Page 220, line 12. For circle:—read circle, previously discovered by James Gregory:—

Page 226, line 5. For Thomas Craige read John Craig.

Page 233, line 6. For 1725 read 1726.

Page 241, line 19. For 1631—1708 read 1651—1708.

Page 285, line 3. For 1765—1845 read 1765—1842.

Page 308, line 3. For Untersuchungen read Entwicklungen.

Page 330, line 7. For Moor read Moore.

Page 335, line 12. For series was made by Gauss read series, excepting a test for convergence by Maclaurin (afterwards re-discovered by Cauchy), was made by Gauss.

. For Tchirnhausen read Tschirnhausen; under "Todhunter," for I., XIII. read XI. Insert the following new references: under "De Moivre" add 242, 245; under "Elements" (Euclid's) add 61; under "Laplace" add 257; under "Moivre, de" add 240, 242; under "Substitutions" add 329.