Excerpt from Mathematical Teaching: And Its Modern Methods A few salient points of history may be useful to consider. About 1730 the Hollis professorship of mathematics and natural philosophy was founded at Harvard College it goes back near enough to Newton's time to enable us to see the impulse which. Caused its establishment. Again, the successors of Winthrop, the first Hollis professor, taught by English methods and essen tially English books, including Playfair's Euclid, till long after the Revolution. Webber's Mathematics, compiled from Hutton and the other English writers, and Hutton's own books, were the standard for many years. It was the military experience of the Revolution which led to the employment of French and Swiss professors in West Point Academy and its reorganization under Thayer, shortly after the War of 1812, led to the produc tion by Davies, Church, and Bartlett, of a series of text-books compiled from Lacroix, Legendre, and other writers Of the same nation. But about the same time similar things were done at Harvard College; and the Cambridge Mathematics Of John Farrar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.