A Treatise on Mensuration: Both in Theory and PracticeSaint, 1770 - 646 pages |
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Page xvii
... demonstrating the relations of curved figures to ftreight ones , be by infcribing polygons in them ; yet to determine those relations , he does not increase the number and diminish the magnitude of the fides of the polygon in infinitum ...
... demonstrating the relations of curved figures to ftreight ones , be by infcribing polygons in them ; yet to determine those relations , he does not increase the number and diminish the magnitude of the fides of the polygon in infinitum ...
Page xxi
... demonstrating , I was enabled to make my book exceedingly more compleat than it could otherwise be ; not only by using that particular method which would perform the bufinefs in the shortest or clearest manner , but which alfo would ...
... demonstrating , I was enabled to make my book exceedingly more compleat than it could otherwise be ; not only by using that particular method which would perform the bufinefs in the shortest or clearest manner , but which alfo would ...
Page xxiii
... demonstrations . Sect . 2. Contains a curious and useful collection of questions con- cerning areas , promifcuously placed , and folved by the rules in the . former fections . PART III . Contains the measuring of folids , and is divided ...
... demonstrations . Sect . 2. Contains a curious and useful collection of questions con- cerning areas , promifcuously placed , and folved by the rules in the . former fections . PART III . Contains the measuring of folids , and is divided ...
Page xxv
... attempts to demonftrate this impoffibility in the Leipfic Acts , as well as in our own Philofophical Tranfactions ; but those demon- g demonstrations are far from being fufficiently general to afford me PREFACE . XXV.
... attempts to demonftrate this impoffibility in the Leipfic Acts , as well as in our own Philofophical Tranfactions ; but those demon- g demonstrations are far from being fufficiently general to afford me PREFACE . XXV.
Page xxvi
Both in Theory and Practice Charles Hutton. demonstrations are far from being fufficiently general to afford me any conviction of it . On the other hand , several confiderations may induce us to believe the poffibility of its quadrature ...
Both in Theory and Practice Charles Hutton. demonstrations are far from being fufficiently general to afford me any conviction of it . On the other hand , several confiderations may induce us to believe the poffibility of its quadrature ...
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