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• The geometrician : containing essays on plane geometry, and trigonometry: with their application to the solutions of a variety of problems, which are of great Use in measuring Heights and Distances of Places, surveying of Counties, Sea-Coasts, &c. By Benjamin Donn, Teacher of the Mathematics, and Lecturer in experimental Philosophy, Author of the Essays on Arithmetic, Book-Keeping, the British Mariner's Assistant, &c
  by: Donne, Benjamin
  Published: (1778)
• An essay on mechanical geometry, chiefly explanatory of a set of schemes and models, by which The knowledge of the most useful propositions of Euclid, and other celebrated Geometricians, may be clearly and expeditiously conveyed, even to youth of an early age. By Benjamin Donne, Master of the Mechanics in Ordinary to His Majesty
  by: Donne, Benjamin
  Published: (1796)
• A new and comprehensive system of mathematical institutions, agreeable to the present state of the Newtonian mathesis : ... . Containing the Institutes, or Principles of I. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal. II. Logarithms. III. Algebra. IV. Geometry. V. Of Plain Trigonometry. VI. Of Conic Sections. Vii. Fluxions. By Benjamin Martin
  by: Martin, Benjamin
  Published: (1759)
• The young geometrician's companion : being a new and comprehensive course of practical geometry; Containing, I. An easy Introduction to Decimal Arithmetic, with the Extractions of the Square, Cube, Biquadrate, and other Roots. II. Such Definitions, Axioms, Problems, Theorems, and Characters, as necessarily lead to the Knowledge of this Science. III. Planometry, or the Mensuration of Superficies; as Squares, Parallelograms, Triangles, Circles, Segments, &c. IV. Stereometry, or the Mensuration of Solids; as Cubes, Parallelopipedons, Prisms, Cones, Pyramids, Cylinders, Spheres, Frustums, &c. V. The Sections of a Cone; as Ellipses, Parabolas, Hyperbolas, Spheroids, Conoids, Spindles, &c. VI. The Platonic Bodies; as Tetraedrons, Hexae͏̈drons, Octae͏̈drons, Dodecae͏̈drons, and Icosae͏̈drons. To Which is Added A Collection of curious and interesting Problems, shewing that Lines and Angles, (and consequently the least Particle of Matter) may be divided in infinitum; that Superficies and Solids may be so cut as to appear considerably augmented; and, that the famous Problem of Archimedes, of moving the Earth, is capable of an easy and accurate Demonstration. Calculated for the Use of Schools and Academies. And is necessary to be gone through by the Scholar before he proceeds to the higher and more abstruse Branches of the Mathematics, Indivisibles, Infinites, Algebra, and Fluxions. By the Reverend R. Turner, LL. D. Rector of Comberton, and Vicar of Elmly; Author of a View of the Earth, or a Short System of Modern Geography-View of the Heavens-Heavens Surveyed-Plain Trigonometry made Easy-And a New Introduction to Book-Keeping
  by: Turner, Richard
  Published: (1787)
• An epitome of natural and experimental philosophy, including geography, with the use of the globes, ... Designed for the use of schools. ... By Benjamin Donn
  by: Donne, Benjamin
  Published: (1769)