Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice … - Augustus De Morgan

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Augustus De Morgan

Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. . . . I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

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