[BONNYCASTLE, CHARLES]. Inductive Geometry; or, an Analysis of the Relations of Form and Magnitude, Commencing With the Elementary Ideas Derived Through the Senses, and Proceeding by a Train of Inductive Reasoning to Develop the Present State of the Science. Designed for the use of the Students at the University. Published by Clement P. M'Kennie and Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Charlottesville, VA, and Philadelphia, 1834.
FIRST EDITION. Leather-bound, hardcover, thick octavo (22 x 13 x 6 cm.), pp. xxvi, 631, [1] errata, [4] supplement. English text, with diagrams and tables throughout. Bound in contemporary full calf, smooth spine with gilt bands and black morocco lettering-piece. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Covers slightly marked and rubbed. Contents showing varying degrees of foxing and toning, with several signatures heavily browned. Front endpaper torn with half excised. Scarce.
Notes: Charles Bonnycastle (1796-1840) was professor of natural philosophy and mathematics at the University of Virginia, from the school's opening in 1825 to his death; this book, his only published volume, was "painfully prolix even by nineteenth-century standards and this innovative book was not a financial success" (Encyclopedia Virginia online). [Karpinski p.358].
