Introduction and books 1,2The University Press, 1908 - Mathematics, Greek |
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... respectively on straight lines given in position , provided that of these latter points no three are at the angular points of a triangle ( sc . having for sides three of the given straight lines ) -each of the remaining points will lie ...
... respectively on straight lines given in position , provided that of these latter points no three are at the angular points of a triangle ( sc . having for sides three of the given straight lines ) -each of the remaining points will lie ...
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... respectively . Another part came out in 1905 . Anaritii in decem libros priores elementorum Euclidis commentarii ex interpretatione Gherardi Cremonensis ... edidit Maximilianus Curtze ( Teubner , Leipzig , 1899 ) . ( b ) that which is ...
... respectively . Another part came out in 1905 . Anaritii in decem libros priores elementorum Euclidis commentarii ex interpretatione Gherardi Cremonensis ... edidit Maximilianus Curtze ( Teubner , Leipzig , 1899 ) . ( b ) that which is ...
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... respectively identical with the propositions vulgo XI . 38 ( Heiberg , App . to Book XI . , No. 3 ) and XIII . 6 ; for both of these interpolations are older than Theon . Moreover most of the scholia which P in the first hand alone has ...
... respectively identical with the propositions vulgo XI . 38 ( Heiberg , App . to Book XI . , No. 3 ) and XIII . 6 ; for both of these interpolations are older than Theon . Moreover most of the scholia which P in the first hand alone has ...
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... respectively . It must also be remembered that some of the things which were properly omitted by the Arabians are omitted or marked as doubtful in Greek MSS . also , especially in P , and others are rightly suspected for other reasons ...
... respectively . It must also be remembered that some of the things which were properly omitted by the Arabians are omitted or marked as doubtful in Greek MSS . also , especially in P , and others are rightly suspected for other reasons ...
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... respectively ) , and which he , on grounds apparently convincing , holds to be Gherard's . Already in 1901 Björnbo had found Books X.-XV. of this translation in a MS . at Rome ( Codex Reginensis lat . 1268 of 14th c . ) 3 ; but three ...
... respectively ) , and which he , on grounds apparently convincing , holds to be Gherard's . Already in 1901 Björnbo had found Books X.-XV. of this translation in a MS . at Rome ( Codex Reginensis lat . 1268 of 14th c . ) 3 ; but three ...
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Page 322 - AB be the given straight line ; it is required to divide it into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part.
Page 204 - After remarking that the mathematician positively knows that the sum of the three angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles...
Page 259 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 188 - That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines make the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which are the angles less than the two right angles.
Page 204 - In any triangle, the sum of the three angles is equal to two right angles, or 180°.
Page 162 - A plane angle is the inclination to one another of two lines in a plane which meet one another and do not lie in a straight line.
Page 167 - When a straight line set up on a straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the equal angles is right, and the straight line standing on the other is called a perpendicular to that on which it stands.
Page 257 - Through a given point to draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line, Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line : it is required to draw through the point A a straight line parallel to BC.
Page 176 - Parallel straight lines are straight lines which, being in the same plane and being produced indefinitely in both directions, do not meet one another in either direction.
Page 235 - Upon the same base, and on the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles that have their sides which are terminated in one extremity of' the base, equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated in the other extremity.