Geometry Without Axioms; Or the First Book of Euclid's Elements. With Alterations and Familiar Notes; and an Intercalary Book in which the Straight Line and Plane are Derived from Properties of the Sphere ...: To which is Added an Appendix ... |
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Page viii
... proposition . There may be things of which the evidence is continually before the senses ; but these are not self - evident , but proved by the con- tinual evidence of the senses . There may be things whose connexion with other things ...
... proposition . There may be things of which the evidence is continually before the senses ; but these are not self - evident , but proved by the con- tinual evidence of the senses . There may be things whose connexion with other things ...
Page ix
... proposition that the greatest is greatest . ' In the present Edition , the part relating to the disputed principle ... propositions ; than which nothing has given a greater handle to the supporters of practical mal - reasoning . With a ...
... proposition that the greatest is greatest . ' In the present Edition , the part relating to the disputed principle ... propositions ; than which nothing has given a greater handle to the supporters of practical mal - reasoning . With a ...
Page x
... Proposition or Corollary has been admitted throughout , which is not subsequently cited ; with the exception of the concluding one , and of a small number the application of which in the following Books of Euclid , or other reason for ...
... Proposition or Corollary has been admitted throughout , which is not subsequently cited ; with the exception of the concluding one , and of a small number the application of which in the following Books of Euclid , or other reason for ...
Page xi
... Proposition . The Intercalary Book is expressed by INTERC . ) See Note . 1 . II . NOMENCLATURE . AFTER a thing , or a class of things , has been rendered obvious to the senses , and either by speech , writing , pictorial representa ...
... Proposition . The Intercalary Book is expressed by INTERC . ) See Note . 1 . II . NOMENCLATURE . AFTER a thing , or a class of things , has been rendered obvious to the senses , and either by speech , writing , pictorial representa ...
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... Propositions . XIX . A Proposition dependent on some other that has been previously established ; but which , by reason of the simplicity of the steps required to connect it with the former , or other causes , it is convenient to state ...
... Propositions . XIX . A Proposition dependent on some other that has been previously established ; but which , by reason of the simplicity of the steps required to connect it with the former , or other causes , it is convenient to state ...
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ABCD adjacent angles alternate angles angle ABC angle ACB angle BAC angular points assigned point Axiom axis base BC bisected called CEGDHF central distances change of place circle coincide throughout Constr demonstrated double equal angles equal straight lines equal to AC equal to EF equilateral triangle Euclid exterior angle extremities four right angles Geometry given straight line greater half the angle hard body inclose a space instance INTERC Intercalary Book ist equal join line AC magnitude manner meet opposite angles parallelogram parity of reasoning pass perpendicular prolonged Prop PROPOSITION proved quadrilateral radii radius rectilinear figure remain unmoved remaining angle remains at rest respectively SCHOLIUM self-rejoining line shown side BC side opposite situation sphere whose centre straight line BC tessera THEOREM.-If third side triangle ABC turned unlimited length Wherefore
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Page 51 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.
Page 109 - PARALLELOGRAMS upon the same base, and between the same parallels, are equal to one another...
Page 111 - Parallelograms upon the same base and between the same parallels, are equal to one another.
Page 120 - If the square described on one of the sides of a triangle be equal to the squares described on the other two sides of it, the angle contained by these two sides is a right angle.
Page 72 - Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side.
Page 55 - From the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a part equal to the less. Let AB and C be the two given straight lines, whereof AB is the greater.
Page 103 - ... twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Page 70 - Any two angles of a triangle are together less than two right angles.
Page 138 - ... the exterior angle equal to the interior and opposite on the same side of the line ; and likewise the two interior angles on the same side of the line together equal to two right angles.
Page 106 - THE straight lines which join the extremities of two equal and parallel straight lines, towards the same parts, are also themselves equal and parallel.