The Elements of Euclid: Viz. the First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh and Twelfth. The Errors by which Theon, Or Others, Have Long Ago Vitiated These Books, are Corrected, and Some of Euclid's Demonstrations are Restored. Also, the Book of Euclid's Data, in Like Manner Corrected |
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... perpendicular to a given straight line of an unlimited length , from a given point without it . Let AB be the given straight line , which may be produced to any length both ways , and let C be a point without it . It is re- quired to ...
... perpendicular to a given straight line of an unlimited length , from a given point without it . Let AB be the given straight line , which may be produced to any length both ways , and let C be a point without it . It is re- quired to ...
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... perpendicular be drawn from any of the acute angles to the opposite side produced , the square of the side subtending the obtuse angle is greater than the squares of the sides containing the obtuse angle , by twice the rectangle ...
... perpendicular be drawn from any of the acute angles to the opposite side produced , the square of the side subtending the obtuse angle is greater than the squares of the sides containing the obtuse angle , by twice the rectangle ...
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... perpendicular let fall up- on it from the opposite angle , and the acute angle .. Let ABC be any triangle , and the angle at B one of its acute angles , and upon BC , one of the sides containing it , let fall the perpendicular a a AD ...
... perpendicular let fall up- on it from the opposite angle , and the acute angle .. Let ABC be any triangle , and the angle at B one of its acute angles , and upon BC , one of the sides containing it , let fall the perpendicular a a AD ...
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... perpendicular to BC ; then is BC the straight line between the perpendicular and the acute angle at B ; and it is manifest that the squares of AB , BC are equal * to the square of AC and twice the square of BC . Therefore , in every ...
... perpendicular to BC ; then is BC the straight line between the perpendicular and the acute angle at B ; and it is manifest that the squares of AB , BC are equal * to the square of AC and twice the square of BC . Therefore , in every ...
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... a circle , when the perpendiculars drawn to them from the centre are equal . V. And the straight line on which the greater perpendicular falls , is said to be farther from the centre . Book III . VI . A segment of a circle THE ...
... a circle , when the perpendiculars drawn to them from the centre are equal . V. And the straight line on which the greater perpendicular falls , is said to be farther from the centre . Book III . VI . A segment of a circle THE ...
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Page 17 - FG; then, upon the same base EF, and upon the same side of it, there can be two triangles that have their sides which are terminated in one extremity of the base equal to one another, and likewise their sides terminated in the other extremity: But this is impossible (i.
Page 35 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Page 67 - Ir any two points be taken in the circumference of a circle, the straight line which joins them shall fall within the circle. Let ABC be a circle, and A, B any two points in the circumference ; the straight line drawn from A to B shall fall within the circle.
Page 92 - IF a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a straight line be drawn cutting the circle, the angles made by this line with the line touching the circle, shall be equal to the angles which are in the alternate segments of the circle.
Page 26 - If from the ends of a side of a triangle, there be drawn two straight lines to a point within the triangle, these shall be less than the other two sides of the triangle, but shall contain a greater angle.
Page 55 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, four times the rectangle contained by the whole line, and one of the parts, together with the square of the other part, is equal to the square of the straight line, which is made of the whole and that part.
Page 318 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Page 22 - If, at a point in a straight line, two other straight lines, upon the opposite sides of it, make the adjacent angles together equal to two right angles, these two straight lines shall be in one and the same straight line.
Page 161 - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other, and the sides about the equal angles proportionals, the triangles shall be equiangular, and shall have those angles equal which are opposite to the homologous sides.
Page 21 - When a straight line standing on another straight line, makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.