Excerpt from Longman's School MensurationIt is hoped that the treatment of the subject as herein exemplified will lead to a more intelligible knowledge of the principles on which the rules of mensuration are based, and that, besides supplying exercises for arithmetical accuracy, it will have an educational advantage, and render the subject an efi'ective means for mental discipline.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.