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 ...

DESCRIPTIVE Geometry affords the practical means of dealing with geometry in three dimensions, in the same manner that Practical Geometry, that is to say, the intelligent use of drawing and of ...

THANKS to Messrs. Kempe, Hart, and other writers on Linkages, we are able “Curvo dignoscere rectum,” and “Parallels design Sure as Demoivre” could. The title of the work before us shows that it is not ...