COURSE

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MATHEMATICS,

FOR THE

USE OF ACADEMIES,

AS WELL AS

PRIVATE TUITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES,

BY

CHARLES HUTTON, LL.D. F. R. S.

Late Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy.

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THE THIRD AMERICAN EDITION:

From the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh London Editions.

REVISED, CORRECTED, AND IMPROVED...

TO WHICH IS ADDED

An Elementary Essay on Descriptive Geometry.
BY ROBERT ADRAIN, LL. D. F. A. P. S. F.A.A.S. &c,
And Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in Columbia

College, New-York.

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