Excerpt from A Course of Pure Geometry It is assumed that the reader has had practice in the working of examples, and that he is in a position to go on to some of the more modern developments of Geometry. The methods of Coordinate Geometry are excluded from this work, but not so its ideas, with which it is supposed that the reader is already acquainted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.