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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... produced ever so far both ways , do not meet . POSTULATES . - 1. LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point . 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight ...
... produced ever so far both ways , do not meet . POSTULATES . - 1. LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point . 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight ...
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... produce ( 2. Post . ) the straight lines DA , BD , to E and F ; from the centre B , at the distance BC , describe ( 3. Post . ) the circle CGH , and from the centre D , at the dis- tance DG , describe the circle GKL , AL is equal to BC ...
... produce ( 2. Post . ) the straight lines DA , BD , to E and F ; from the centre B , at the distance BC , describe ( 3. Post . ) the circle CGH , and from the centre D , at the dis- tance DG , describe the circle GKL , AL is equal to BC ...
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... produced , the angles upon the other side of the base shall be equal . Let ABC be an isosceles triangle , of which the side AB is equal to AC , and let the straight lines AB , AC be produced to D and E , the angle ABC shall be equal to ...
... produced , the angles upon the other side of the base shall be equal . Let ABC be an isosceles triangle , of which the side AB is equal to AC , and let the straight lines AB , AC be produced to D and E , the angle ABC shall be equal to ...
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... produce AC , AD to E , F ; therefore , because AC is equal to AD in the triangle ACD , the angles ECD , FDC upon the other side of the base CD are equal ( 5. 1. ) to one another , but the angle ECD is greater than the angle BCD ...
... produce AC , AD to E , F ; therefore , because AC is equal to AD in the triangle ACD , the angles ECD , FDC upon the other side of the base CD are equal ( 5. 1. ) to one another , but the angle ECD is greater than the angle BCD ...
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... produced to any length both ways , and let C be a point without it . It is required to draw a straight line perpendicular to AB from the point C. Take any point D upon the other side of AB , and from the centre C , at the distance CD ...
... produced to any length both ways , and let C be a point without it . It is required to draw a straight line perpendicular to AB from the point C. Take any point D upon the other side of AB , and from the centre C , at the distance CD ...
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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...