Gradations in Euclid : books i. and ii., with an explanatory preface [&c.] by H. Green1858 |
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... added the 12th and 23rd of bk.i .: and Eudoxas , B. C. 366 , a friend of Plato , wrote the doctrine of proportion as developed in the fifth book of the Elements . These assertions may not rest on the firmest authority , yet they shew ...
... added the 12th and 23rd of bk.i .: and Eudoxas , B. C. 366 , a friend of Plato , wrote the doctrine of proportion as developed in the fifth book of the Elements . These assertions may not rest on the firmest authority , yet they shew ...
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... added the four- teenth and fifteenth books , also on the Regular or Platonic Solids . In modern times it is not usual to read more than six books of Euclid's Elements . The seventh , eighth , ninth , and tenth books treat of Arithmetic ...
... added the four- teenth and fifteenth books , also on the Regular or Platonic Solids . In modern times it is not usual to read more than six books of Euclid's Elements . The seventh , eighth , ninth , and tenth books treat of Arithmetic ...
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... adding . minus , sign of subtracting . sign of difference between . ~ II . - Geometrical Signs . I perpendicular to , or at right angles . parallelogram . rectangle . circle . Oce circumference . * When an s is added to the sign , the ...
... adding . minus , sign of subtracting . sign of difference between . ~ II . - Geometrical Signs . I perpendicular to , or at right angles . parallelogram . rectangle . circle . Oce circumference . * When an s is added to the sign , the ...
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... adding . Ax . ..Axiom . ...... .... Conc . ..Conclusion , inference . Cor ....... Corollary . Cons . ... Construction . C. 1 & c . .. Step 1 & c . of the Con- struction . .Datum , or data . Dat .. Def . ...... Definition . Dem ...
... adding . Ax . ..Axiom . ...... .... Conc . ..Conclusion , inference . Cor ....... Corollary . Cons . ... Construction . C. 1 & c . .. Step 1 & c . of the Con- struction . .Datum , or data . Dat .. Def . ...... Definition . Dem ...
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... added to equals , the wholes are equal ; and we argue , if to the line A D , or to its equal the line BC , we add another line E F , then the whole line made up of AD EF , will equal the whole line made up of BC + E F. The third kind of ...
... added to equals , the wholes are equal ; and we argue , if to the line A D , or to its equal the line BC , we add another line E F , then the whole line made up of AD EF , will equal the whole line made up of BC + E F. The third kind of ...
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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.