An essay on mechanical geometry, explanatory of a set of models1796 |
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... problems , and theorems . A POSTULATE is fomething required to be granted , to prevent cavils . Euclid's pof- tulates are , I. Let it be granted , that a ftraight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point . 2 . That a ...
... problems , and theorems . A POSTULATE is fomething required to be granted , to prevent cavils . Euclid's pof- tulates are , I. Let it be granted , that a ftraight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point . 2 . That a ...
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... Problems and Theorems . A PROBLEM is a practical propofition , as to draw one line perpendicular to another . A THEOREM , a fpeculative propofition , the truth of which may be de- monstrated ; as the three angles of a triangle are ...
... Problems and Theorems . A PROBLEM is a practical propofition , as to draw one line perpendicular to another . A THEOREM , a fpeculative propofition , the truth of which may be de- monstrated ; as the three angles of a triangle are ...
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... Problems before we proceed ; but as their rationalé could not be understood without knowing the propofitions on which they depend , we shall first proceed with the Theorems , and afterwards give some of the most necessary Problems ...
... Problems before we proceed ; but as their rationalé could not be understood without knowing the propofitions on which they depend , we shall first proceed with the Theorems , and afterwards give some of the most necessary Problems ...
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... PROBLEMS . SECTION I , Of Problems relating to Angles , Perpendi- culars , and Parallel Lines . PROBLEMI . To bifect a right line , that is , to divide it into two equal parts . - 10 E. 1 , or 6 D. 5 . C. 30 About the points A and B ...
... PROBLEMS . SECTION I , Of Problems relating to Angles , Perpendi- culars , and Parallel Lines . PROBLEMI . To bifect a right line , that is , to divide it into two equal parts . - 10 E. 1 , or 6 D. 5 . C. 30 About the points A and B ...
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... PROBLEM 2. To bifect an angle . - 9 E. 1 , or 5 D. 5 . Let CAB be the angle which is to be C.30 divided into two ... PROBLEM 3. To draw a perpendicular on a given line Problems . Book v . 45.
... PROBLEM 2. To bifect an angle . - 9 E. 1 , or 5 D. 5 . Let CAB be the angle which is to be C.30 divided into two ... PROBLEM 3. To draw a perpendicular on a given line Problems . Book v . 45.
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Page 4 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds.
Page 11 - Magnitudes which coincide with one another, that is, which exactly fill the same space, are equal to one another.
Page 23 - 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 24 - If two triangles have the three sides of the one equal to the three sides of the other, each to each, the triangles are congruent.
Page 12 - ... the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles, although it is not known to all.
Page 37 - A right circular cone is often called a cone of revolution, because it can be generated by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its shorter sides.
Page 10 - POSTULATES. 1. LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. And that a circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre.
Page 65 - Multiply half the circumference by half the diameter, and the product will be the area. Or, divide the product of the whole circumference and diameter -by 4, and the quotient will be the area. 2. Multiply the square of the diameter by .7854, and the product will be the area.
Page 84 - ... reafonable creatures •, for though we all call ourfelves fo, becaufe we are born to it if we pleafe, yet we may truly fay Nature gives us but the...
Page 40 - SIMILAR cones and cylinders have to one another the triplicate ratio of that which the diameters of their bases have...