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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... radius equal to AB , the other given side , would cut BC on opposite sides of C ' ; so that only one obtuse angled triangle could be B A formed ; that is , the triangle BC'A will be the triangle required C And , if the given angle were ...
... radius equal to AB , the other given side , would cut BC on opposite sides of C ' ; so that only one obtuse angled triangle could be B A formed ; that is , the triangle BC'A will be the triangle required C And , if the given angle were ...
Page 45
... radius equal to the other given side , describe an arc , cutting CB in B ; draw AB , and CAB will be the triangle requi- red . But if the given angle is acute , and the side opposite to it less than the other given side ; make the angle ...
... radius equal to the other given side , describe an arc , cutting CB in B ; draw AB , and CAB will be the triangle requi- red . But if the given angle is acute , and the side opposite to it less than the other given side ; make the angle ...
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... radius equal to the side of the other square , describe an arc cutting AD in D : the square described upon AD will be equivalent to the difference of the squares constructed upon AC and CD . For the triangle DAC is right angled ...
... radius equal to the side of the other square , describe an arc cutting AD in D : the square described upon AD will be equivalent to the difference of the squares constructed upon AC and CD . For the triangle DAC is right angled ...
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... radius of a circle is the straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference . 1. A straight line is said to touch a circle , when it meets the cir- cle , and being produced does not cut it . And that line which has but one point ...
... radius of a circle is the straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference . 1. A straight line is said to touch a circle , when it meets the cir- cle , and being produced does not cut it . And that line which has but one point ...
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... radius drawn to the point of contact is perpendicular to the tangent , it follows that the angle included by two tangents , drawn from the same point , is bisected by a line drawn from the centre of the circle to that point ; for this ...
... radius drawn to the point of contact is perpendicular to the tangent , it follows that the angle included by two tangents , drawn from the same point , is bisected by a line drawn from the centre of the circle to that point ; for this ...
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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...