Hi Roderick, When viewing a single page of a full view book on Google Books, just under the title near the top of the web page, near the right side, there is a down pointing arrow and the letters pdf. If you left click there, it will start a download of the pdf version. There is a text download point just to the left of this, but, since many books have pictures/drawings, the pdf download is probably better. Instead of the Adobe Reader I use the PDF X-Change viewer, since it allows annotating, typing in notes and resaving the document. It and a number of other viewers are available from a number of online freeware sites.
Enjoy! Edley. > Hi Edley, > > Thanks for yourinformation on Google books. I've now used google > booksto find information on a > number of differentsubjects, there's lots of information to befound, > thanks. In your email you > indicated that a book can be downloaded, do you know howto do that. > > Thanks, > > Roderick. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Edley McKnight > To: David M Brown ; [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 7:33 AM > Subject: Re: Dialling in the school curriculum > Hi David, > > Yes, in the 1700's and 1800's Dialing was widely taught in many > of the grade levels as well > as college. After all, how else were we to keep time. Railroads > ran by sun time. The > Encyclopedia Britannica early on had a huge area on dialing. > If you go to Google Books and search for dialing plane and then > restrict the > books to be full view only, you will find quite a few old > textbooks that contain several > chapters on dialing. Moreover, they can be downloaded as well. > Judging from the large amount of information in some of these > textbooks, I doubt that a > single talk could cover much of it. Doing the talk from current > best theory and or practise > would be more to the point, yet still a single talk could only > be a mild introduction. > > We wish you well at it. > > Edley McKnight > > > > Dear fellow-diallists, > > I have been asked to give a talk on the mathematics of > dialling to a > > group of school mathematicians (pupils and teachers, and > possibly > > parents). My game-plan is to tackle it from a historical > aspect, > > i.e. to > > take them through the basics of the elements of dialling that > would > > have been in a school mathematics curriculum. that immediately > begs > > a > > host of questions - was the mathematics of dialling /ever/ in > the > > school > > curriculum (rather than a topic taught to/learnt by > 'gentlemen') > > and if > > so , when, and until when, and what would have been the > content? > > If any of you out there can give me any leads, references, > ideas, > > etc., > > I'd be very glad to receive them. Apologies in advance for not > > thanking > > you immediately for your help and guidance - I'm just about to > set > > off > > for a couple of weeks in France to celebrate my and my wife's > three > > score years and ten with the family.No doubt there will be > floods > > of > > responses by the time I get back! > > Kindest regards to all. > > David Brown > > Somerton, Somerset, > > UK > >--------------------------------------------------- > >https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.19/2244 - Release > Date: 07/17/09 18:00:00
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