Book, Plane Geometry
date: label: date made
content: 1906
name: label: publisher
content: American Book Company
label: maker
content: Robbins, Edward Rutledge
notes: label: Description
content: By the early twentieth century, modern textbooks had replaced Euclid as a way of studying basic plane geometry. This title was by Edward Routledge Robbins (1870-1941). A New Jersey native, Robbins graduated from Princeton University in 1894 with high honors in mathematics. He would later receive a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He began his teaching career – and his textbook authorship – as a master at the Lawrenceville Seminary in New Jersey. He would continue it – and write this book – while on the faculty of the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia. After a spell at the John Wanamaker store in New York from 1918 until 1922, he was associated with the Swarthmore Preparatory School, the schools in Jenkintown, Pa., and finally Temple University. Other textbooks he wrote concerned algebra, practical arithmetic, plane trigonometry, and solid geometry.
label: Description
content: A signature in the front of the book reads: N. S. Tirnbrook (/) 23rd St. Y.M.C.A. A list in pencil opposite this (inside the front cover) appears to be a list of presidents of the United States through William McKinley. There are occasional pencil markings in the text.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: “Edward R. Robbins: An Instructor in Mathematics at Temple University Ten Years,” <I>New York Times</I>, November 8, 1941, p. 19.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Education
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth E. Myer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.3133.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 1986.3133
label: catalog number
content: 1986.3133.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.5 cm x 14.5 cm x 20.6 cm; 19/32 in x 5 23/32 in x 8 1/8 in