Gradations in Euclid : books i. and ii., with an explanatory preface [&c.] by H. Green1858 |
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... taken of various points on which Euclid has evidently fallen short of that form- ality of rigour which is tacitly claimed for him . We prefer , " says De Morgan , this edition very much to many which have been fashioned upon it ...
... taken of various points on which Euclid has evidently fallen short of that form- ality of rigour which is tacitly claimed for him . We prefer , " says De Morgan , this edition very much to many which have been fashioned upon it ...
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... taken as the starting point of the reasoning ; -and though , for the demonstration of the inference , " the angles at the base are equal , " it is necessary to draw various lines which are not men- tioned in the hypothesis , the ...
... taken as the starting point of the reasoning ; -and though , for the demonstration of the inference , " the angles at the base are equal , " it is necessary to draw various lines which are not men- tioned in the hypothesis , the ...
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... taken in one direction , may represent the monad , or elementary part of length ; And 100th of an inch , taken in a direction at right angles from one extremity of the monad of length , will represent the monad of breadth ; And the ...
... taken in one direction , may represent the monad , or elementary part of length ; And 100th of an inch , taken in a direction at right angles from one extremity of the monad of length , will represent the monad of breadth ; And the ...
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Euclides Henry Green. Also , 100th of an inch , taken in a direction at right angles from the common point of junction of the two lines which repre- sent the monad of surface , will represent the monad of thickness ; And the monad of ...
Euclides Henry Green. Also , 100th of an inch , taken in a direction at right angles from the common point of junction of the two lines which repre- sent the monad of surface , will represent the monad of thickness ; And the monad of ...
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... taken to represent the unit of length ; to any longer line , as CD , or b , or 3 , we apply AB , or a , or 1 , as the measuring line or unit ; and if AB is contained an exact number of times , as 3 times , in CD , then we say , CD is ...
... taken to represent the unit of length ; to any longer line , as CD , or b , or 3 , we apply AB , or a , or 1 , as the measuring line or unit ; and if AB is contained an exact number of times , as 3 times , in CD , then we say , CD is ...
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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.