 Braille produced several written works about braille and as general education for the blind . Method of Writing Words , Music , and Plain Songs ... ( 1829 ) was revised and republished in 1837 ; his mathematics guide , Little Synopsis of Arithmetic for Beginners , entered use in 1838 ; and his monograph New Method for Representing by Dots the Form of Letters , Maps , Geometric Figures , Musical Symbols , etc . , for Use by the Blind was first published in 1839 . Many of Braille 's original printed works remain available at the Braille birthplace museum in Coupvray . 
