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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... THEOR . C 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 ...
... THEOR . C 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 ...
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... THEOR . If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other , each to each , and have likewise their bases equal , the angle which is contained by the two sides of the one shall be equal to the angle contain- ed ...
... THEOR . If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other , each to each , and have likewise their bases equal , the angle which is contained by the two sides of the one shall be equal to the angle contain- ed ...
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... THEOR . The angles which one straight line makes with another upon the one side of it , are either two right angles , or are together equal to two right angles . = Let the straight line AB make with CD , upon THE ELEMENTS.
... THEOR . The angles which one straight line makes with another upon the one side of it , are either two right angles , or are together equal to two right angles . = Let the straight line AB make with CD , upon THE ELEMENTS.
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... THEOR . If two straight lines cut one another , the vertical , or opposite , angles shall be equal . Let the two straight lines AB , CD , cut one another in the point E ; the angle AEC shall be equal to the angle DEB , and CEB to AED ...
... THEOR . If two straight lines cut one another , the vertical , or opposite , angles shall be equal . Let the two straight lines AB , CD , cut one another in the point E ; the angle AEC shall be equal to the angle DEB , and CEB to AED ...
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... THEOR . If one side of a triangle be produced , the exterior angle is greater than either of the interior opposite angles . Let ABC be a triangle , and let its side BC be produced to D , the exterior angle ACD is greater than either of ...
... THEOR . If one side of a triangle be produced , the exterior angle is greater than either of the interior opposite angles . Let ABC be a triangle , and let its side BC be produced to D , the exterior angle ACD is greater than either of ...
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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.