Carolyn Eisele • NEM 2 • Introduct ion

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Note 1

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Peircers,

Here is an excerpt from the end of Carolyn Eisele's Introduction
to Volume 2 of _The New Elements of Mathematics by Charles S. Peirce_.

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NEM 2, p. xxvii
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As for _The New Elements of Mathematics_ (MS. 165), Peirce mentions it again in MS. 229 which is included in an appendix of this collection.  It is 
mentioned also in MS. 517 (c. 1903?) in which Peirce tells of having devoted a year to it, of its having reached three publishers, and of its having 
been lost.  The editor believes that this carefully designed and logically perfected presentation was well advanced before the opportunity for 
publication of a revision of Benjamin's _Geometry_ was offered by Mr. Ginn.  It contains the kind of logical introduction that Peirce said had been 
deleted from MS. 94.  The editor believes that when George A. Plimpton, an associate of Ginn at Ginn & Co., indicated to Charles that he “wants _us_ 
to do it,” Charles rewrote the geometry part of MS. 165 into the present Books of MS. 94 and attached Benjamin's book to all as a kind of Appendix. 
If that was the case pages were later detached from MS. 94 and inserted with new pagination into MS. 165 as is indicated in the relevant footnotes of 
the present edition.

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