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AMUSEMENTS IN
MATHEMATICS
BY
HENRY ERNEST DUDENEY
AUTHOR OF "the CANTERBURY PUZZLES: AND
OTHER CURIOUS PROBLEMS," ETC.
In Mathematicks he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater:
For he, by geometrick scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale;
Resolve, by sines and tangents, straight,
If bread or butter wanted weight;
And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike, by algebra.
Butler's Hudibras.
THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, LTD.
LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK