Excerpt from Analytical Geometry for Beginners:, The Straight Line and Circle, Vol. 1 This little book is an attempt to simplify a subject which the majority of boys find unusually difficult. It is intended partly for young boys with some mathematical taste, and partly for those who have to get up a little for military and other examinations, but who do not intend to pursue their studies farther than is necessary for these examinations. With these objects, the explanations have been made very full, but all reference to oblique coordinates and to transformations has been postponed to the last chapter. 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.