The Elements of Euclid: viz. the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfth; and also the book of Euclid's Data |
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... Greek editions we now have , I found that Theon , or whoever was the editor of the present Greek text , by adding some things , suppressing others , and mixing his own with Euclid's Demonstrations , had changed more things to the worse ...
... Greek editions we now have , I found that Theon , or whoever was the editor of the present Greek text , by adding some things , suppressing others , and mixing his own with Euclid's Demonstrations , had changed more things to the worse ...
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... Greek text and translations from " it , the angle of the semicircle is said to be greater than any " acute rectilineal angle , and the remaining angle less than any rectilineal angle . " 66 COR . From this it is manifest , that the ...
... Greek text and translations from " it , the angle of the semicircle is said to be greater than any " acute rectilineal angle , and the remaining angle less than any rectilineal angle . " 66 COR . From this it is manifest , that the ...
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... falls without the right angle CAB ; but the circumference of the less segment ADC falls within the right angle CAF . And this is all that is meant , when in the Book III , Greek text , and the translations from F 2 OF EUCLID . 83.
... falls without the right angle CAB ; but the circumference of the less segment ADC falls within the right angle CAF . And this is all that is meant , when in the Book III , Greek text , and the translations from F 2 OF EUCLID . 83.
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... Greek text , and the translations from it , the angle of the ' greater segment is said to be greater , and the angle of the ' less segment is said to be less than a right angle . ' a 11. 1 . b 19. 3 . Con . From this it is manifest ...
... Greek text , and the translations from it , the angle of the ' greater segment is said to be greater , and the angle of the ' less segment is said to be less than a right angle . ' a 11. 1 . b 19. 3 . Con . From this it is manifest ...
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... Greek , because the pyra- mid , in what follows , is supposed to be circumscribed about the cone , and so must have the same vertex . And the same change is made in some places following . b remain some segments of the cone which are ...
... Greek , because the pyra- mid , in what follows , is supposed to be circumscribed about the cone , and so must have the same vertex . And the same change is made in some places following . b remain some segments of the cone which are ...
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Page 95 - 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.
Page 153 - 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 306 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Page 11 - 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 11 - Upon the same base, and on the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles that have their sides which are terminated in one extremity of the base equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated in the other extremity.
Page 317 - Equiangular parallelograms have to one another the ratio which is compounded of the ratios of their sides.
Page 54 - In every triangle, the square on the side subtending either of the acute angles, is less than the squares on the sides containing that angle, by twice the rectangle contained by either of these sides, and the straight line intercepted between the...
Page 26 - IF a straight line fall upon two parallel straight lines it makes the alternate angles equal to one another ; and the exterior angle equal to the interior and opposite, upon the same side ; and likewise the two interior angles upon the same side together equal to two right angles.
Page 11 - 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 93 - A circle is said to be described about a rectilineal figure, when the circumference of the circle passes through all the angular points of the figure about which it is described. VII. A straight line is said to be placed in a circle, when the extremities of it are in the circumference of the circle.