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Excerpt from Mensuration: With Special Application of the Prismoidal Formula, Designed for Supplementary Work in Normal Schools, High Schools, Academies, and Advanced Classes in Grammar and Common Schools A New text-book at the close of the nineteenth century is no novelty. The author, therefore, without apology sends forth this little volume, hoping that his co-workers may find at least some of the pleasure and profit in using it that he has found in its preparation and practical application in the school-room. The method of treating Mensuration, as here presented, has had a thorough class-room test - a safe criterion for any method. Both those pupils with a knowledge of Geometry and those without such knowledge have been able to solve problems with facility. Without this test with pupils of various ages and grades, the author would hesitate long before advising the setting aside of some of the standard rules used in text-books for years. Pupils who have become familiar with this method have invariably become enthused with the work. They enter examinations in this department confident of success, because they have become masters of one broad principle covering a great field of measurement. What was vague becomes clear, the concrete supplants the abstract. Concentration and simplicity are everywhere the central ideas. A few words concerning the scope of this principle may not be amiss. As the title-page indicates, the special feature of this work is the application of the prismoidal formula to finding the volume of solids. 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.