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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... kind is called a plane . From these , all the relations of straight lines and planes may be inferred . If in this there is any novelty and truth , it is surprising that a property which was the foundation of the Platonic notion of the ...
... kind is called a plane . From these , all the relations of straight lines and planes may be inferred . If in this there is any novelty and truth , it is surprising that a property which was the foundation of the Platonic notion of the ...
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... kind should be supposed to be founded on axioms ; and it is no answer to say , that in a particular case they were true . The Second Book of Euclid would be true , if the First existed only in the shape of the heads of the Propo ...
... kind should be supposed to be founded on axioms ; and it is no answer to say , that in a particular case they were true . The Second Book of Euclid would be true , if the First existed only in the shape of the heads of the Propo ...
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... kind . For the line itself has neither thickness nor breadth ; wherefore its extremity can have neither . And if the so - called extremity had length , it would not be the extremity , but part of the line . Thus the extremity of a line ...
... kind . For the line itself has neither thickness nor breadth ; wherefore its extremity can have neither . And if the so - called extremity had length , it would not be the extremity , but part of the line . Thus the extremity of a line ...
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... kind , [ that is to say , solids with solids , surfaces with surfaces , & c . ] , are called magnitudes . XIV . Magnitudes which if their boundaries were applied to one another , would coincide ; or might be made capable of doing so ...
... kind , [ that is to say , solids with solids , surfaces with surfaces , & c . ] , are called magnitudes . XIV . Magnitudes which if their boundaries were applied to one another , would coincide ; or might be made capable of doing so ...
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... kind . For example , if the original proposition is as in the last article ; the contrary of this proposition is , that if of equals one be less than some thing else , the rest are severally less than the same . SCHOLIUM . Neither the ...
... kind . For example , if the original proposition is as in the last article ; the contrary of this proposition is , that if of equals one be less than some thing else , the rest are severally less than the same . SCHOLIUM . Neither the ...
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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.