Mathematical Treasure: Charles Venable’s Arithmetic and Elementary Algebra

Charles Scott Venable (1827–1900) was a mathematician, astronomer, and military officer. He is noted for authoring a series of textbooks as a University of Virginia professor. Venable’s Arithmetic was released in 1868:

His Elementary Algebra was published in 1869:

The images appear courtesy of Encyclopedia Virginia and the Internet Archive’s digitization of the copy owned by the University of Alberta.

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