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... mean Proportionals ; which as being an excellent , and indeed the only Way , all that have followed him to this time have embrac'd . ' Tis alfo his peculiar and great Commendation , that he , as Proclus teftifies , firft wrote Elements ...
... mean Proportionals ; which as being an excellent , and indeed the only Way , all that have followed him to this time have embrac'd . ' Tis alfo his peculiar and great Commendation , that he , as Proclus teftifies , firft wrote Elements ...
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... mean Proportionals ; whofe Invention in this Cafe is preferr'd by Eutocius before any other . Theudius and Hermotimus made the Elements more univerfal and full . And all thefe , who were of Plato's Academy , brought Mathematick ...
... mean Proportionals ; whofe Invention in this Cafe is preferr'd by Eutocius before any other . Theudius and Hermotimus made the Elements more univerfal and full . And all thefe , who were of Plato's Academy , brought Mathematick ...
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... means of the Shadow of the Fig . 80 . Sun , we may measure the Height of a Tower , or any ele- vated Point . For when the Sun is elevated 45 Degrees above the Horizon , the Shadow which the Tower cafts towards the Horizon will be ...
... means of the Shadow of the Fig . 80 . Sun , we may measure the Height of a Tower , or any ele- vated Point . For when the Sun is elevated 45 Degrees above the Horizon , the Shadow which the Tower cafts towards the Horizon will be ...
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... mean while we fhall make no ufe of it . PROP . XXII . Problem . O make a Triangle of three given right Lines ( BO , LO ) TB , LB , 10 ) of which any two must be greater than the third . ) Let B L one of the given Lines be taken , and B ...
... mean while we fhall make no ufe of it . PROP . XXII . Problem . O make a Triangle of three given right Lines ( BO , LO ) TB , LB , 10 ) of which any two must be greater than the third . ) Let B L one of the given Lines be taken , and B ...
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... means of a Stile perpendicularly erected , that on the fame Day the Sun was distant from the ver- tical Point of Alexandria , a City of Egypt , fituate al- most under the fame Meridian with the other , feven Degrees , with one sth Part ...
... means of a Stile perpendicularly erected , that on the fame Day the Sun was distant from the ver- tical Point of Alexandria , a City of Egypt , fituate al- most under the fame Meridian with the other , feven Degrees , with one sth Part ...
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Page 211 - Side next to the Diameter : and let the right Lines BH, CG, DF, join the Angles which are equally diftant from A. I fay that the...
Page 221 - Axis, is alfo given j it is manifeft that each of the Segments become known. Now both the foregoing, and all the reft of the Theorems which follow...