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On Two fragments of Geometrical Treatises Found in Worcester Cathedral Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

I believe I am the only surviving original-member of that A.I.G.T., to which the President bas referred (The Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching). This Association arose out of a book which I wrote at Dr. Temple’s (the late Archbishop of Canterbury’s) suggestion, after the Commission of Inquiry into Secondary Education (the Endowed Schools Commission), that some new method, simpler than Euclid, should be brought into our geometrical teaching. It was very desirable that there should not be competition between private individual writers of text-books competing for public approval and public use, and so we formed the Association in order to unify the teaching on the new lines.

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The Mathematical Association
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1911

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References

* The words in italics have been cut off from the bottom of the leaf, and have been supplied from other MSS.

The facsimile opposite shews what follows. Figures shewing the different sorts of triangles are drawn in the margin. (Plate 1.)

For qui in another MS. reads quibus etiam.

§ For crurium another MS. reads equicrurium.

* The passage quoted is from lines 7-14 of the facsimile opposite.

* Mr. Bushell handed his copy of the first circular to the Chairman for printing and it will be found on p. 1 of this number of the Gazette.