Excerpt from Plane Geometry, Vol. 4: Experiment, Classification, Discovery, Application
1. Note-book. - Preserve all drawings and written work in a loose leaf note-book with unruled pages. Number to correspond with the text. Draw large, accurate figures with distinct lettering.
2. Drawing Instruments. - a six-inch scale divided decimally, a protractor, and a compass.
3. How Geometry Began. - Many ancient nations, the Chinese, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and others, constructed wonderful works, as roads, canals, aqueducts, temples, pyramids, and tombs. They laid out cities and gardens. These required appreciation of geometric principles. Herodotus, a Greek historian who wrote about 450 B. C., states that the Egyptians developed many geometric principles because the annual overflow of the Nile obliterated the boundary marks of the lands, and it became necessary to re-locate these boundaries. This was probably the earliest use of surveying for land measurement, and it is from this use of geometric principles that the name geometry, which means "earth measurement," is derived.
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