Euclid Revised

Abstract

THE movement for greater freedom in the teaching of elementary geometry than is consistent with a rigid adherence to Euclid's Elements, which may be regarded as having taken definite shape with the formation of the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching in the year 1871, gains strength surely, if not rapidly. Of this Mr. Nixon's book is one of many indications, notwithstanding his decision in favour of retaining Euclid's Elements as the basis of geometry. For this decision he assigns “two substantial reasons of expediency and convenience:—

Euclid Revised, containing the Essentials of the Elements of Plane Geometry as given by Euclid in his First Six Books, with numerous Additional Propositions and Exercises.

Edited by R. C. J. Nixon, formerly Scholar of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886.)