Excerpt from Handbook to the Matlick Tellurian: Guide to Mathematical and Astronomical Geography Isaac Newton Matlick, inventor of the tellurian which bears his name, was born in Pleasant Township, West Virginia, in the year 1846; and died in San Francisco, California, February the third, 1913: His remains being interred in Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland, Oregon. It was in this city where Prof. Matlick served many years as a principal of schools that he brought to completion the invention of his tellurian. To this great task he gave thirty-one years of painstaking effort. The achievement should give him rank among the great mathematicians and mechanics of the world. Those who knew him testify to his great strength of character, combined with kindliness of heart and fine humility. His invention, wonderful in its capacity to make plain the great laws of the world and the solar system, should make his name familiar to the youth of many generations. 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.