Geometry made easy, or, A new and methodical explanation of the elements [sic] of geometry
Subtitle: containing Euclid's Elements, and the most material propositions of Archimedes ... from the French, with several additions and amendments
By: by John Lodge Cowley ... ; by whom is added a curious and exact method of representing the various kinds of solids and their sections, by new invented schemes which are printed upon paste board and so constructed, that when cut out ... they distinctly shew each section ...
Contributors: Stone, Edmund, -1768; L'Hospital, marquis de (Guillaume François Antoine), 1661-1704
Publisher: Printed for the author, and sold by M. Mechell ...
Published: 1752
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Geometry; Early works to 1800; Conic sections
Other titles: Geometry made easy.; A New and methodical explanation of the elements of geometry.
Notes: Not translated from the French. Translated into French in 1834 "d'après l'ouvrage anglais de John Lodge Cowley"--BN.

Includes "An introduction to conic sections" by Guillaume de L'Hospital, translated by Edmund Stone.

Each of the six books and conic section accompanied by separately numbered plates.

Errata included (p. iii verso 2nd group).

Subscribers' list included (p. 1-4 1st group).

Last 10 plates are in cut-out format.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), #N009976