Elements of Geometry;: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid, with Two Books on the Geometry of Solids. To which are Added, Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry |
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... also been the moft fuccefsful , and has left very little room for the ingenuity of future editors to be exercifed in , either by amend- ing the text of EUCLID , or by improving the tranflations from it , Such being the merits of Dr ...
... also been the moft fuccefsful , and has left very little room for the ingenuity of future editors to be exercifed in , either by amend- ing the text of EUCLID , or by improving the tranflations from it , Such being the merits of Dr ...
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... from them , and which anfwer exactly the fame pur- pofe . Some propofitions also have been added ; but , for a fuller detail concerning thefe changes , I must refer to the notes , in which several a 4 I PREFACE . vii.
... from them , and which anfwer exactly the fame pur- pofe . Some propofitions also have been added ; but , for a fuller detail concerning thefe changes , I must refer to the notes , in which several a 4 I PREFACE . vii.
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... also , if there be any force in it , the present treatife is certainly as much expo- fed as any other , for , of all the alterations that may be made in the Elements , the laft I fhould think of , is to confider any thing as felf ...
... also , if there be any force in it , the present treatife is certainly as much expo- fed as any other , for , of all the alterations that may be made in the Elements , the laft I fhould think of , is to confider any thing as felf ...
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... also points . " III . " Lines which cannot coincide in two points , without coin- ciding altogether , are called straight lines . 66 " COR . Hence two straight lines cannot inclose a space . Nei- " ther can two ftraight lines have a ...
... also points . " III . " Lines which cannot coincide in two points , without coin- ciding altogether , are called straight lines . 66 " COR . Hence two straight lines cannot inclose a space . Nei- " ther can two ftraight lines have a ...
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... also the point C fhall coincide with the point F , because AC is equal to DF : But the point B coincides with the point E ; wherefore the base BC fhall co- a cor.def.3.incide with the base EF a , and fhall be equal to it . Therefore also ...
... also the point C fhall coincide with the point F , because AC is equal to DF : But the point B coincides with the point E ; wherefore the base BC fhall co- a cor.def.3.incide with the base EF a , and fhall be equal to it . Therefore also ...
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Page 18 - 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 155 - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other and the sides about these equal angles proportional, the triangles are similar.
Page 17 - If, at a point in a straight line, two other straight lines upon the opposite sides of it, make the adjacent angles, together equal to two right angles, these two straight lines shall be in one and the same straight line.
Page 9 - Wherefore, from the given point A, a straight line AL has been drawn equal to the given straight line BC.
Page 3 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another.
Page 23 - Therefore all the angles of the figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Page 12 - ABC: and it has also been proved that the angle FBC is equal to the angle GCB, which are the angles upon the other side of the base. Therefore the angles at the base, &c.
Page 6 - Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Page 156 - But by the hypothesis, it is less than a right angle ; which is absurd. Therefore the angles ABC, DEF are not unequal, that is, they are equal : And the angle at A is equal to the angle at D ; wherefore...
Page 44 - If a straight line be bisected, and produced to any point ; the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced, and the part of it produced...