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AN

EASY INTRODUCTION

TO THE

MATHEMATICS;

IN WHICH

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE

ARE LAID DOWN AND FAMILIARLY EXPLAINED.

To each subject are prefixed,

A BRIEF POPULAR HISTORY OF ITS RISE AND PROGRESS, CONCISE MEMOIRS
OF NOTED MATHEMATICAL AUTHORS ANCIENT AND MODERN,
AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR WORKS.

The whole forming

A COMPLETE AND EASY SYSTEM

OF

ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION

IN THE

LEADING BRANCHES OF THE MATHEMATICS;

DESIGNED TO FURNISH STUDENTS WITH THE means of ACQUIRING CONSIDERABLE
PROFICIENCY, WITHOUT THE NECESSITY OF VERBAL ASSISTANCE.

Adapted to the use of

SCHOOLS, JUNIOR STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITIES, AND PRIVATE

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Longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla. SENECA.

VOL. I.

OXFORD:

PRINTED BY BARTLETT AND NEWMAN;

AND SOLD BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER ROW,
LONDON PARKER, OXFORD; AND DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE.

REV. JAMES WILDING, M. A.

MASTER OF CHEAM SCHOOL,

AND LATE FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

AS A TESTIMONY OF ESTEEM FOR HIS VIRTUES,

OF RESPECT FOR HIS SUPERIOR TALENTS,

AND INDEFATIGABLE ZEAL

AS A PRECEPTOR;

AND OF GRATITUDE FOR REPEATED FAVOURS.

ALSO TO THE

NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN

EDUCATED AT CHEAM SCHOOL,

AMONG WHOM THE AUTHOR HAS LABOURED NEARLY THIRTY YEARS;

TO EVINCE HIS SENSE OF THEIR GENERAL GOOD CONDUCT,

AND DILIGENCE IN MATHEMATICAL STUDIES;

AND LIKEWISE HIS GRATITUDE TO THOSE WHO HAVE CONFERRED

BENEFITS ON HIMSELF AND FAMILY;

THIS WORK,

UNDERTAKEN PARTLY BY THEIR DESIRE,

AND PRINCIPALLY FOR THEIR USE,

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY THEIR OBLIGED

AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

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