Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid with a Supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle, and the Geometry of Solids : to which are Added, Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry |
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... Scholium is a remark or observation made on some foregoing propo- sition or premises . 13. An Hypothesis is a supposition assumed to be true , in order to argue from , or to found upon it the reasoning and demonstration of some pro ...
... Scholium is a remark or observation made on some foregoing propo- sition or premises . 13. An Hypothesis is a supposition assumed to be true , in order to argue from , or to found upon it the reasoning and demonstration of some pro ...
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... SCHOLIUM . By the same construction , each of the halves BAF , CAF , may be divi ded into two equal parts ; and thus , by successive subdivisions , a given an- gle may be divided into four equal parts , into eight , into sixteen , and ...
... SCHOLIUM . By the same construction , each of the halves BAF , CAF , may be divi ded into two equal parts ; and thus , by successive subdivisions , a given an- gle may be divided into four equal parts , into eight , into sixteen , and ...
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... SCHOLIUM . C This may be demonstrated without producing any of the sides : thus , the line BC , for example , is the shortest distance from B to C ; therefore BC is less than BA + AC or BA + AC > BC . PROP . XXI . THEOR . If from the ...
... SCHOLIUM . C This may be demonstrated without producing any of the sides : thus , the line BC , for example , is the shortest distance from B to C ; therefore BC is less than BA + AC or BA + AC > BC . PROP . XXI . THEOR . If from the ...
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... SCHOLIUM . If one of the sides were greater than the sum of the other two , the arcs would not intersect each other : but the solution will always be possible , when the sum of two sides , any how taken ( 20. 1. ) is greater than the ...
... SCHOLIUM . If one of the sides were greater than the sum of the other two , the arcs would not intersect each other : but the solution will always be possible , when the sum of two sides , any how taken ( 20. 1. ) is greater than the ...
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... SCHOLIUM . The angles just spoken of , when compared with each other , assume different names . BGH , GHD , we have already named interior angles on the same side ; AGH , GHC , have the same name ; AGH , GHD , are called alternate ...
... SCHOLIUM . The angles just spoken of , when compared with each other , assume different names . BGH , GHD , we have already named interior angles on the same side ; AGH , GHC , have the same name ; AGH , GHD , are called alternate ...
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ABC is equal ABCD adjacent angles altitude angle ABC angle ACB angle BAC base BC bisected centre chord circle ABC circumference cosine cylinder definition demonstrated described diameter divided draw equal and similar equal angles equiangular equilateral equilateral polygon equimultiples Euclid exterior angle fore four right angles given rectilineal given straight line greater Hence hypotenuse inscribed join less Let ABC line BC magnitudes meet opposite angle parallel parallelogram parallelopiped perpendicular plane polygon prism PROB PROP proportional proposition quadrilateral radius ratio rectangle contained rectilineal figure remaining angle right angled triangle SCHOLIUM segment semicircle shewn side BC sine solid angle spherical angle spherical triangle square straight line AC THEOR third touches the circle triangle ABC triangle DEF wherefore
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Page 41 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts; the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square of the line between the points of section, is equal to the square of half the line.
Page 70 - The angle in a semicircle is a right angle; the angle in a segment greater than a semicircle is less than a right angle; and the angle in a segment less than a semicircle is greater than a right angle.
Page 45 - Again, because the angle at B is half a right angle, and FDB a right angle, for it is equal...
Page 91 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and one side equal to one side, viz. either the sides adjacent to the equal...
Page 273 - 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 25 - Parallelograms upon the same base and between the same parallels, are equal to one another.
Page 130 - Equiangular parallelograms have to one another the ratio which is compounded of the ratios of their sides.
Page 61 - THE diameter is the greatest straight line in a circle; and, of all others, that which is nearer to the centre is always greater than one more remote ; and the greater is nearer to the centre than the less.* Let ABCD be a circle, of which...