Easy rules for the measurement of earthworks, by means of the prismoidal formula, by Ellwood Morris ...
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781425516383
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: 1. Of the Prismoid.-Although this solid probably originated with the ancient geometers-THOMAS SIMPSON (1750), an eminent mathematician of the last century, appears to have been the first, in later days, to demonstrate the rule for its solidity, now accepted by modern mensurators; and he was soon followed by Hutton, in his quarto treatise on Mensuration, who by another process again demonstrated the Prismoidal Rule, and at the same time laid the foundations of modern mensuration, in a manner so solid, that it has come down to our time, through various editors and commentators, substantially (in many cases literally) the same as established by Hutton in his famous work of 1770.