Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid: With a Supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle and the Geometry of Solids ...J. Eastburn & Company, 1819 - 317 pages |
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Page vii
... demonstrating more easily some of the properties of parallel lines . In the third Book , the remarks con- cerning the angles made by a straight line , and the circumference of a circle , are left out , as tending to perplex one who has ...
... demonstrating more easily some of the properties of parallel lines . In the third Book , the remarks con- cerning the angles made by a straight line , and the circumference of a circle , are left out , as tending to perplex one who has ...
Page xv
... demonstrate that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third ; it may be replied , that this is no doubt a truth , which , without proof , most inen will be inclined to admit ; but are we for that reason to account it of no ...
... demonstrate that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third ; it may be replied , that this is no doubt a truth , which , without proof , most inen will be inclined to admit ; but are we for that reason to account it of no ...
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... demonstrated . : v . PROP . V. THEOR . The angles at the base of an Isosceles triangle are equal to one another ; and if the equal sides be produced , the angles upon the other side of the base shall also be equal . Let ABC be an ...
... demonstrated . : v . PROP . V. THEOR . The angles at the base of an Isosceles triangle are equal to one another ; and if the equal sides be produced , the angles upon the other side of the base shall also be equal . Let ABC be an ...
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... demonstrated , that the whole angle ABG is equal to the whole ACF , and the part CBG to the part BCF , the remaining angle ABC is therefore equal to the remaining angle ACB , which are the angles at the base of the triangle ABC : And it ...
... demonstrated , that the whole angle ABG is equal to the whole ACF , and the part CBG to the part BCF , the remaining angle ABC is therefore equal to the remaining angle ACB , which are the angles at the base of the triangle ABC : And it ...
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... demonstrated to be greater than it ; which is impossible . But if one of the vertices , as D , be within the other triangle ACB ; produce AC , AD to E , F ; therefore , because AC is equal to AD in the triangle ACD , the angles ECD ...
... demonstrated to be greater than it ; which is impossible . But if one of the vertices , as D , be within the other triangle ACB ; produce AC , AD to E , F ; therefore , because AC is equal to AD in the triangle ACD , the angles ECD ...
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Page 153 - If from the vertical angle of a triangle a straight line be drawn perpendicular to the base, the rectangle contained by the sides of the triangle is equal to the rectangle contained by the perpendicular and the diameter of the circle...
Page 19 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another.
Page 33 - THE greater angle of every triangle is subtended by the greater side, or has the greater side opposite to it.
Page 292 - If a straight line meet two straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two right angles...
Page 308 - 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 36 - IF two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other, each to each, but the angle contained by the two sides of one of them greater than the angle contained by the two sides equal to them, of the other ; the base of that which has the greater angle shall be greater than the base of the other.
Page 18 - 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.
Page 78 - To draw a straight line from a given point, either without or in the circumference, which shall touch a given circle. First, let A be a given point without the given circle BCD : it is required to draw a straight line from A which shall touch the circle.
Page 77 - THE straight line drawn at right angles to the diameter of a circle, from the extremity of it, falls without the circle...
Page 39 - If a straight line fall upon two parallel straight lines, it makes the alternate angles equal to one another ; and the exterior angle equal to the interior and opposite upon the same side ; and likewise the too interior angles upon the same side together equal to two right angles.