Euclid's Elements of geometry, transl. To which are added, algebraic demonstrations to the second and fifth books; also deductions in the first six, eleventh and twelfth books, with notes, by G. Phillips. Part 1, containing book i-vi1826 |
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Page xviii
... greater ratio than that of 3 to 1 : therefore the ratio of the circumference to its diameter must be between these two ratios . But that which has rendered him most famous in the eyes of posterity is the fabrication of such admirable ...
... greater ratio than that of 3 to 1 : therefore the ratio of the circumference to its diameter must be between these two ratios . But that which has rendered him most famous in the eyes of posterity is the fabrication of such admirable ...
Page xx
... great number of books , which were considered by the ancients as affording the most perfect examples of the higher ... Ratio , or Proportional Section ; two books . 2. The Section of a Space , in two books . 3. Determinate Section , in ...
... great number of books , which were considered by the ancients as affording the most perfect examples of the higher ... Ratio , or Proportional Section ; two books . 2. The Section of a Space , in two books . 3. Determinate Section , in ...
Page 115
... greater , when the less measures the greater . 2. A multiple is a greater magnitude of a less , when the less measures the greater . 3. Ratio is a certain mutual habitude or relation of two magnitudes of the same kind , according to ...
... greater , when the less measures the greater . 2. A multiple is a greater magnitude of a less , when the less measures the greater . 3. Ratio is a certain mutual habitude or relation of two magnitudes of the same kind , according to ...
Page 116
... greater ratio than the third has to the fourth . " " 4. If the first of four magnitudes be less , when compared to the second , than the third is when compared to the fourth , the first is said to have to the second a less ratio than ...
... greater ratio than the third has to the fourth . " " 4. If the first of four magnitudes be less , when compared to the second , than the third is when compared to the fourth , the first is said to have to the second a less ratio than ...
Page 117
... greater ratio to the second , than the third has to the fourth . † 8. Proportion is a similitude of ratios . 9. Proportion consists of three terms at least . 10. If three magnitudes be proportionals , the first is said to have to the ...
... greater ratio to the second , than the third has to the fourth . † 8. Proportion is a similitude of ratios . 9. Proportion consists of three terms at least . 10. If three magnitudes be proportionals , the first is said to have to the ...
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ABC is equal adjacent angles Algebra angle ABC angle ACB angle BAC angles equal base BC bisected centre circle ABC circumference diameter double draw equal angles equal circles equal right lines equal to F equi equiangular equimultiples Euclid EUCLID'S ELEMENTS exceed exterior angle fore four magnitudes fourth given circle given point given right line gnomon greater ratio hence inscribed isosceles triangle join less Let ABC multiple parallel parallelogram perpendicular polygon proportional Q. E. D. Deductions Q. E. D. PROPOSITION rectangle contained remaining angle right line AB right line AC right line drawn segment side AC similar and similarly square of AC subtending THEOREM three right lines tiple touches the circle triangle ABC triangle DEF whence whole
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Page xxx - A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by the diameter. XIX. "A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the circumference it cuts off.
Page 74 - The straight line drawn at right angles to the diameter of a circle, from the extremity of it, falls without the circle...
Page 33 - The complements of the parallelograms, which are about the diameter of any parallelogram, are equal to one another.
Page 146 - 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 27 - And because the angle ABC is equal to the angle BCD, and the angle CBD to the angle ACB, therefore the whole angle ABD is equal to the whole angle ACD • (ax.
Page 2 - Things which are double of the same are equal to one another. 7. Things which are halves of the same are equal to one another.
Page 28 - Parallelograms upon the same base, and between the same parallels, are equal to one another.
Page 73 - DH ; (i. def. 15.) therefore DH is greater than DG, the less than the greater, which is impossible : therefore no straight line can be drawn from the point A, between AE and the circumference, which does not cut the circle : or, which amounts to the same thing, however great an acute angle a straight line makes with the diameter at the point A, or however small an angle it makes with AE, the circumference must pass between that straight line and the perpendicular AE.
Page 88 - From a given circle to cut off a segment, which shall contain an angle equal to a given rectilineal angle.
Page 95 - IN a given circle to inscribe a triangle equiangular to a given triangle. Let ABC be the given circle, and DEF the given triangle; it is required to inscribe in the circle ABC a triangle equiangular to the triangle DEF. Draw (1 7. 3.) the straight line G AH touching the circle in the point A, and. at the point A, in the straight line AH, make (23.