Known as the father of descriptive geometry, Gaspard Monge (1746–1818) was born in Beaune, Burgundy in France. Attending college at an early age, Monge showed mathematical talent early on. He drew a ...
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THE models are six in number. They are intended to show a line (1) by its projections, (2) by its traces; the inclination of an oblique plane (3) to the vertical plane, (4) to the horizontal plane; ...
WHEN our Civil and Military Engineering Examinations are daily making larger demands for geometrical proficiency a new and exceedingly lucid Note-book on Descriptive Geometry comes well-timed. Though ...