Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on Analytic Geometry: Embracing Plane Geometry The present work on Analytic Geometry is designed as a text-book for Colleges and Scientific Schools. The object has been to exhibit the subject in a clear and sim ple manner, especially for the use of beginners, and at the same time to include all that students usually require in the regular undergraduate course. 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.