Plane and solid geometry /
Claude Irwin Palmer and Daniel Pomeroy Taylor.
- Chicago : Scott, Foresman and Company, c2009
- xi, 429 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes index.
Chapter 1. Straight-line figures -- Chapter 2. The circle -- Chapter 3. Areas of polygons -- Chapter 4. Proportion and similarity -- Chapter 5. Regular polygons, measurement of circles -- Chapter 6. Straight lines and planes -- Chapter 7. Polyedrons, prisms, cylinders -- Chapter 8. Pyramids and cones -- Chapter 9. Prismatoids and polyedrons -- Chapter 10. The sphere and polyedral angles.
This text drives its origin and character from the view that geometry is a valuable study for high school pupils in the degree to which they understand and appreciate it at the time they are studying it.