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Wilson (J. M.) — continued.

This work is an endeavour to introduce into schools some portions of ''Solid Geometry which are now very little read in England. The first'' twenty-one Propositions of Euclid's Eleventh Book are usually all the Solid Geometry that a boy reads till he meets with the subject again in the ''course of his analytical studies. And this is a matter of regret, because'' ''this part of Geometry is specially valuable and attractive. In it the atten&shy;tion'' of the student is strongly called to the subject matter of the reasoning; the geometrical imagination is exercised; the methods employed in it are more ingenious than those in Plane Geometry, and have greater diffi&shy;culties to meet; and the applications of it in practice are more varied.

“This treatise supplies a great educational need” — .

Geometrical Conic Sections — Analytical Conic Sections — Theory of Equa&shy;tions — Differential Calculus — Integral Calculus — Solid Geometry — Statics — Elementary Dynamics — Newton — Dynamics of a Point — Dynamics of a Rigid Body — Hydrostatics — Geometrical Optics — Spherical Trigonometry and Plane Astronomy, “Judicious, symmetrical, and well arranged.” — .
 * — Geometry (Euclid) — Algebra — Plane Trigonometry —