The Theory of Engineering Drawing - Couverture souple

Adler, Adler

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1313102059 ISBN 13 : 9781313102056

Editeur : HardPress Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Although the subject matter of this volume is, in large measure, identical with that of many treatises on descriptive geometry, the author has called it Theory of Engineering Drawing, beheving that this title indicates better than could any other, the ultimate purpose of the book. That texts on descriptive geometry appear with some degree of frequency, with but few, if any, additions to the theory, indicates that teachers are aware of certain weaknesses in existmg methods of presenting the subject. It is precisely these weaknesses that the present work aims to correct. The author emphasizes the fact that the student is concerned with the representation on a plane of objects in space of three dimensions. The analysis, important as it is, has for its primary purpose the development of methods for such representation and the interpretation of the resulting drawings. It is nowhere regarded as an end in itself. The number of fundamental principles has been reduced to a minimum; indeed it will be found that the entire text is based on the problem of finding the piercing point of a given line on a given surface, and a few additional operations. The accepted method of presenting the subject, IS to start with a set of definitions,to consider in detail the orthographic projection of a point, and then, on the foundation thus laid, to build the theory of the projection of lines, surfaces, and sohds. Logical and beautiful as this systematic development may be, it nevertheless presents certain inherent difficulties, chief of which is that the student is confronted at the outset with that most abstract of all abstractions, the mathematical point. In this volume the order of presentation is reversed and th( reader IS asked to consider first some concrete object, a box, for instance, the study of which furnishes material of use in the later discussion of its bounding surface
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HardPress Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1313102059
• ISBN 13: 9781313102056
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 370
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible