Abstract
BY a curious chance these two works reached our hands nearly on the same day, and as Mr. Dodgson devotes a great portion of his space (62 pp.) to the consideration of Mr. Wilson's Geometries, we have thought it well to notice the two authors at the same time. As however it is patent from the fact of Mr. Wilson's work having reached a fourth edition, that his method is not unknown to, and, may we add, not unappreciated by, a large section of mathematical teachers, we shall at once pass on to a consideration of Mr. Dodgson's book, only noticing Mr. Wilson's book in connection with the criticisms put forward in “Euclid and His Modern Rivals.”
Euclid and His Modern Rivals.
By Charles L. Dodgson (London: Macmillan, 1879.)
Elementary Geometry.
Books i.—iv., containing the subjects of Euclid's first six books; following the syllabus of geometry prepared by the Geometrical Association. By J. M. Wilson. Fourth edition. (London: Macmillan, 1878.)
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Euclid and His Modern Rivals . Nature 20, 240–241 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020240a0
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