| John Bell - Classical dictionaries - 1790 - 422 pages
...demonstration of the 47th proposition of the first book of Euclid, viz. that in n right angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two other sides. Julius Capito/ linus relates, that when an Hecatomb was to be sacrificed,... | |
| Abel Flint - Surveying - 1804 - 226 pages
...without finding the Angles ; according to the following PROPOSITION : In every Right Angled Triangle, the Square of the Hypothenuse is equal to the Sum of the Squares of the two Legs. Hence, The Square of the given Leg being subtracted from the Square of the... | |
| Abel Flint - Surveying - 1808 - 190 pages
...without Finding the Angles ; according to the following PROPOSITION : In every Right Angled Triangle, the Square of the Hypothenuse is equal to the Sum of the Squares of the two Legs. Hence, The Square of the given Leg being subtracted from the Square of the... | |
| Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 406 pages
...to the rectangle under their sum and difference, o.. ED THEOREM XXXIV. IN any Right-angled Triangle, the Square of the Hypothenuse, is equal to the Sum of the Squares of the other two Sides. Let ABC be a right-angled triangle, having the right angle c ; then... | |
| Jeremiah Day - Measurement - 1815 - 388 pages
...are referred to. 94. Other relations of the sine, tangent, &c. may be derived from the proposition, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the perpendicular sides. (Euc. 47. 1.) > that is' RZ =co . 3. "CF2 = And, extracting the... | |
| Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1815 - 172 pages
...given, the third side may be found, without the aid of the trigonometrical tables, by the proposition, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two perpendicular sides. (Euc. 47. 1.) the hypothenuse, and the angles.* If the legs... | |
| Thomas Keith - 1817 - 306 pages
...4. An angle IAD in a semi'circle is a right angle (EUCLID 31 ./III.) 5. In a right-angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, (EuctiD 47 «/"!.) see also Problem VI. 6. If a perpendicular be drawn... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...triangles, which are similar to the first triangle, and to one another. In every right-angled triangle, the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides; and, in general, any figure described on the hypothenuse is equal to... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...triangles, which are similar to the first triangle, and to one another. In every right-angled triangle, the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides; and, in general, any figure described on the hypothenuse is equal to... | |
| Frederick Beasley - Philosophy - 1822 - 584 pages
...parallelograms be added together they will be equal to the smaller squares added together, or in other words, the square of the hypothenuse, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other sides. It will here be distinctly perceived, that the progress of the understanding... | |
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