Gradations in Euclid : books i. and ii., with an explanatory preface [&c.] by H. Green1858 |
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... PRACTICAL RESULTS AND EXERCISES : BY HENRY GREEN , A. M. " GEOMETRY IS , PERHAPS , OF ALL THE PARTS OF MATHEMATICS , THAT WHICH OUGHT TO BE TAUGHT FIRST : IT APPEARS TO ME VERY PROPER TO INTEREST CHILDREN , PROVIDED IT IS PRE- SENTED TO ...
... PRACTICAL RESULTS AND EXERCISES : BY HENRY GREEN , A. M. " GEOMETRY IS , PERHAPS , OF ALL THE PARTS OF MATHEMATICS , THAT WHICH OUGHT TO BE TAUGHT FIRST : IT APPEARS TO ME VERY PROPER TO INTEREST CHILDREN , PROVIDED IT IS PRE- SENTED TO ...
Page iii
... Practical Applica- tion of whatever they learn is of great importance . He is , however , persuaded that those who have both time and full opportunity , either in Public Schools or in Colleges , for attaining proficiency in the Higher ...
... Practical Applica- tion of whatever they learn is of great importance . He is , however , persuaded that those who have both time and full opportunity , either in Public Schools or in Colleges , for attaining proficiency in the Higher ...
Page iv
... PRACTICAL USES to which the proposition may be applied . This is valuable for many rea- sons , but chiefly that the Learner may at once see , not simply the theoretical and abstract truths of Geometry , but their direct utility in ...
... PRACTICAL USES to which the proposition may be applied . This is valuable for many rea- sons , but chiefly that the Learner may at once see , not simply the theoretical and abstract truths of Geometry , but their direct utility in ...
Page v
... Practical Mathematics will supply what may be wanting in this respect . For the developement of the Uses and Applications of the First and Second Books of Euclid , geometrical principles not worked out in those books must occasionally ...
... Practical Mathematics will supply what may be wanting in this respect . For the developement of the Uses and Applications of the First and Second Books of Euclid , geometrical principles not worked out in those books must occasionally ...
Page vii
... practical advantage of abstract truths is rendered apparent . It is imperative that the Teacher should revise each Proposition after it has been written out , and note all misapprehensions and inaccuracies before the Learner proceeds to ...
... practical advantage of abstract truths is rendered apparent . It is imperative that the Teacher should revise each Proposition after it has been written out , and note all misapprehensions and inaccuracies before the Learner proceeds to ...
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Page 93 - 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 105 - IF a side of any triangle be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles ; and the three interior angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles.
Page 161 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, four times the rectangle contained by the whole line, and one of the parts, together with the square of the other part, is equal to the square of the straight line which is made up of the whole and that part.
Page 41 - A segment of a circle, is the figure contained by a straight line and the circumference which it cuts off.
Page 93 - If two triangles have two sides of the one respectively equal to two sides of the other, and the contained angles supplemental, the two triangles are equal.
Page 100 - 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 180 - 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 18 - Pythagoras' theorem states that the square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.
Page 142 - If the square described upon one of the sides of a triangle, be equal to the squares described upon the other two sides of it ; the angle contained by these two sides is a right angle.
Page 44 - LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.