A Popular Course of Pure and Mixed Mathematics ...: With Tables of Logarithms, and Numerous Questions for Exercise |
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... Surfaces of Solids of Revolution PRACTICAL GEOMETRY PROBLEMS Page 496 502 * ib . 508 * 512 * 514 * 501 Descriptions of Instruments useful in Projections ib . · PERSPECTIVE Part I. -Part II . PROJECTION OF A SPHERE IN PLANO STEREOGRAPHIC ...
... Surfaces of Solids of Revolution PRACTICAL GEOMETRY PROBLEMS Page 496 502 * ib . 508 * 512 * 514 * 501 Descriptions of Instruments useful in Projections ib . · PERSPECTIVE Part I. -Part II . PROJECTION OF A SPHERE IN PLANO STEREOGRAPHIC ...
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... surface . Coordinates , the general term used , when the abscissa and ordinates of a curve are considered corresponding , whether they are at right angles with each other or not . Corollary , a consequence drawn from some proposition or ...
... surface . Coordinates , the general term used , when the abscissa and ordinates of a curve are considered corresponding , whether they are at right angles with each other or not . Corollary , a consequence drawn from some proposition or ...
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... surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure . Disc , the body or face of the sun or moon , such as it appears to us . Divergent or Diverging lines , those whose distance is continually increasing . Dodecagon , a ...
... surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure . Disc , the body or face of the sun or moon , such as it appears to us . Divergent or Diverging lines , those whose distance is continually increasing . Dodecagon , a ...
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... surface to the level of the orifice . Galileo had failed in assigning the reason why water cannot be raised in pumps higher than thirty - three feet , but he had remarked , that if a pump is more than thirty - three feet in length , a ...
... surface to the level of the orifice . Galileo had failed in assigning the reason why water cannot be raised in pumps higher than thirty - three feet , but he had remarked , that if a pump is more than thirty - three feet in length , a ...
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... surface , and hence all the drops that gave the same colour must be arranged in a circle , the centre of which was the point in the cloud opposite to the sun . This , though not a complete theory of the rainbow , and though it left a ...
... surface , and hence all the drops that gave the same colour must be arranged in a circle , the centre of which was the point in the cloud opposite to the sun . This , though not a complete theory of the rainbow , and though it left a ...
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Page 172 - If, from the ends of the side of a triangle, there be drawn two straight lines to a point within the triangle, these shall be less than, the other two sides of the triangle, but shall contain a greater angle. Let...
Page 191 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts, the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square on the line between the points of section, is equal to the square on half the line.
Page 190 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts, is equal to the rectangle contained by the two parts, together with the square of the aforesaid part.
Page 196 - 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 192 - If a straight line be bisected and produced to any point, the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced and the part of it produced, together •with the square on half the line bisected, is equal to the square on the straight line which is made up of the half and the part produced.
Page 177 - 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 209 - THE straight line drawn at right angles to the diameter of a circle, from the extremity of it, falls without the circle...
Page 284 - The bases of a cylinder are the circles described by the two revolving opposite sides of the parallelogram.
Page 286 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and one side equal to one side, viz. either the sides adjacent to the equal...
Page 179 - Therefore all the angles of the figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.