The Elements of Euclid: The Errors, by which Theon, Or Others, Have Long Ago Vitiated These Books, are Corrected and Some of Euclid's Demonstrations are Restored. Also, to this Second Edition is Added the Book of Euclid's Data. In Like Manner Corrected. viz. the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfth |
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... for , in other cases , two folid figures may be contained by similar planes of the fame number and magnitude , and yet be unequal to one another ; as thall be made evident in the No : es fubjoined to these Elements .
... for , in other cases , two folid figures may be contained by similar planes of the fame number and magnitude , and yet be unequal to one another ; as thall be made evident in the No : es fubjoined to these Elements .
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The case in which the Vertex of onc triangle is upon a fide of the other , needs no demonstration . Therefore upon the fame base , and on the same side of it , there cannot be two triangles that have their sides which ...
The case in which the Vertex of onc triangle is upon a fide of the other , needs no demonstration . Therefore upon the fame base , and on the same side of it , there cannot be two triangles that have their sides which ...
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... FG ; then upon the fame base EF and upon the fame side of it there can be two triangles that have their fides which are terminated in one extremity of the base equal to one another , and likewise their fides terminated in the other ...
... FG ; then upon the fame base EF and upon the fame side of it there can be two triangles that have their fides which are terminated in one extremity of the base equal to one another , and likewise their fides terminated in the other ...
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Ax . is impossible . therefore BE is not in the same straight line with BC : And in like manner , it may be demonstrated that no other can be in the same straight line with it but BD ) , which therefore is in the fame straight line with ...
Ax . is impossible . therefore BE is not in the same straight line with BC : And in like manner , it may be demonstrated that no other can be in the same straight line with it but BD ) , which therefore is in the fame straight line with ...
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Let the straight line EF fall upon the parallel straight lines AB , CD . the alternate angles AGH , GHD are equal to one another ; and the exterior angle EGR is equal to the interior and opposite upon the fame fide , GHD ; and the two ...
Let the straight line EF fall upon the parallel straight lines AB , CD . the alternate angles AGH , GHD are equal to one another ; and the exterior angle EGR is equal to the interior and opposite upon the fame fide , GHD ; and the two ...
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Page 5 - Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Page 163 - 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 48 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the squares of the whole line, and of one of the parts, are equal to twice the rectangle contained by the whole and that part, together with the square of the other part. Let the straight line AB be divided into any two parts in the point C; the squares of AB, BC are equal to twice the rectangle AB, BC, together with the square of AC.
Page 73 - The straight line drawn at right angles to the diameter of a circle, from the extremity of it, falls without the circle; and no straight line can be drawn from the extremity between that straight line and the circumference, so as not to cut the circle...
Page 105 - 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 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 167 - Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides.
Page 54 - AB be the given straight line ; it is required to divide it into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part.
Page 47 - 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 37 - To describe a parallelogram that shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.