Elements of Geometry and Conic Sections

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Harper & brothers, 1861 - Conic sections - 234 pages

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Page 27 - If two triangles have two angles and the included side of the one, equal to two angles and the included side of the other, each to each, the two triangles will be equal.
Page 157 - The sum of the angles of a spherical triangle is greater than two and less than six right angles ; that is, greater than 180° and less than 540°. (gr). If A'B'C' is the polar triangle of ABC...
Page 60 - Any two rectangles are to each other as the products of their bases by their altitudes.
Page 63 - IF a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square of the whole line is equal to the squares of the two parts, together with twice the' rectangle contained by the parts.
Page 101 - When you have proved that the three angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles...
Page 10 - CHG; and they are adjacent angles; but when a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of them is a right angle; and the straight line which stands upon the other is called a perpendicular to it; therefore from the given point C a perpendicular CH has been drawn to the given straight line AB.
Page 32 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Page 22 - 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 18 - BC common to the two triangles, which is adjacent to their equal angles ; therefore their other sides shall be equal, each to each, and the third angle of the one to the third angle of the other, (26.
Page 41 - It follows that either couplet of a proportion may be multiplied or divided by any quantity, and the resulting quantities will be in proportion. And since by...

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