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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 John Playfair. 1 $ OF GEOMETRY ; CONTAINING THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF.
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 John Playfair. 1 $ OF GEOMETRY ; CONTAINING THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF.
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... Plane and Spherical Trigonometry Euclid, John Playfair. mathematicians , Dr SIMSON , as he may be ac- counted the laft , has also been the moft fuccefsful , and has left very little room for the ingenuity of future editors to be ...
... Plane and Spherical Trigonometry Euclid, John Playfair. mathematicians , Dr SIMSON , as he may be ac- counted the laft , has also been the moft fuccefsful , and has left very little room for the ingenuity of future editors to be ...
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... Plane and Spherical Trigonometry Euclid, John Playfair. pofitions of the fifth Book , than of any other of the Elements . A few changes have alfo been made in the enunciations of this book , chiefly in those of the fubfidiary ...
... Plane and Spherical Trigonometry Euclid, John Playfair. pofitions of the fifth Book , than of any other of the Elements . A few changes have alfo been made in the enunciations of this book , chiefly in those of the fubfidiary ...
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... Plane and Spherical Trigonometry Euclid, John Playfair. 1 be rightly explained , unless that connection be accurately traced , wherever it exists . It is upon- this that the beauty and peculiar excellence of the mathematical fciences ...
... Plane and Spherical Trigonometry Euclid, John Playfair. 1 be rightly explained , unless that connection be accurately traced , wherever it exists . It is upon- this that the beauty and peculiar excellence of the mathematical fciences ...
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... Plane and Spherical Trigonometry Euclid, John Playfair. To all this it may be added , that the mind , especially when beginning to study the art of reafoning , cannot be employed to greater ad- vantage than in analyfing thofe judgments ...
... Plane and Spherical Trigonometry Euclid, John Playfair. To all this it may be added , that the mind , especially when beginning to study the art of reafoning , cannot be employed to greater ad- vantage than in analyfing thofe judgments ...
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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...