George Washington's
School Copybook

George Washington's School Copybook
Geometrical Definitions
Manuscript copybook, 1745-1748
Manuscript Division( November 21, 2002 )

Washington was a young teenager when he wrote these school exercises between 1745 and 1748. His particular mathematical and surveying interests are reflected in the carefully drawn and written exercises. However, the three copybooks' general topics of geometry, poetry, weights and measures, and proper gentlemanly behavior provide a fair view of the range of early tutorial education provided the son of a Virginia planter in the eighteenth century.