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The geometrography of Euclid's problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

J. S. Mackay
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The term Geometrography is new to mathematical science, and it may be defined, in the words of its inventor, as “the art of geometrical constructions.”

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 12 , February 1893 , pp. 2 - 16
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1893

References

* Mr Lemoine remarks that the simplicity and the exactitude of an operation vary inversely as the numbers he sums; but since no confusion is possible, he prefers names recalling the object aimed at to the more logical terms coefficient of complication and coefficient of inexactitude.

* See Mascheroni, 's Geometria del compusso (1795).Google Scholar

† See Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, V, 2–22 (1887).Google Scholar