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Trigonometry (from “Triangle”, and “Metry” I measure) is the science of the numerical relations between the sides and angles of triangles.
This Treatise is intended to demonstrate, to those who have learned the principal propositions in the first six books of Euclid, so much of Trigonometry as was originally implied in the term, that is, how from given values of some of the sides and angles of a triangle to calculate, in the most convenient way, all the others.
A few propositions supplementary to Euclid are premised as introductory to the propositions of Trigonometry as usually understood.
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Some apology is required for adding another to the long list of books on Trigonometry. My excuse is that during twenty years’ experience I have not found any published book exactly suiting the wants of my Students. In conducting a Junior Class by regular progressive steps from Euclid and Elementary Algebra to Trigonometry, I have had to fill up by oral instruction the gap between the Sixth Book of Euclid and the circular measurement of Angles; which is not satisfactorily bridged by the propositions of Euclid’s Tenth and Twelfth Books usually supposed to be learned; nor yet by demonstrations in the modern books on Trigonometry, which mostly follow Woodhouse; while the Appendices to Professor Robert Simson’s Euclid in the editions of Professors Playfair and Wallace of Edinburgh, and of Professor James Thomson of Glasgow, seemed to me defective for modern requirements, as not sufficiently connected with Analytical Trigonometry.
What I felt the want of was a short Treatise, to be used as a Text Book after the Sixth Book of Euclid had been learned and some knowledge of Algebra acquired, which should contain satisfactory demonstrations of the propositions to be used in teaching Junior Students the Solution of Triangles, and should at the same time lay a solid foundation for the study of Analytical Trigonometry.
This want I have attempted to supply by applying, in the first Chapter, Newton’s Method of Limits to the mensuration of circular arcs and areas; choosing that method both because it is the strictest and the easiest, and because I think the Mathematical Student should be early introduced to the method.
Details
Publisher - E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Author(s) - Hugh Blackburn
Paperback
Published Date - March 15 2024
ISBN - 9786256004900
Dimensions - 21.6 x 13.8 x 0.7 cm
Page Count - 132
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