The College Euclid: Comprising the First Six and the Parts of the Eleventh and Twelfth Books Read at the Universities ... By A. K. Isbister1865 |
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... plane superficies is that in which any two points being taken , the straight line between them lies wholly in that superficies . VIII . A plane angle is the inclination of two lines to one another in a plane , which meet together , but ...
... plane superficies is that in which any two points being taken , the straight line between them lies wholly in that superficies . VIII . A plane angle is the inclination of two lines to one another in a plane , which meet together , but ...
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... plane figure contained by one line , which is called the circumference , and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another . XVI . And this point is called the ...
... plane figure contained by one line , which is called the circumference , and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another . XVI . And this point is called the ...
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... plane , and which being produced ever so far both ways do not meet . POSTULATES . I. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point . IL . That a terminated straight line may be produced to any ...
... plane , and which being produced ever so far both ways do not meet . POSTULATES . I. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point . IL . That a terminated straight line may be produced to any ...
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... plane , which meet neither way , though produced ever so far , are parallel to one another ; ( def . 35 ) therefore AB is parallel to CD . Wherefore , if a straight line , & c . Q.E. D. PROP . XXVIII . THEOREM . If a straight line BOOK ...
... plane , which meet neither way , though produced ever so far , are parallel to one another ; ( def . 35 ) therefore AB is parallel to CD . Wherefore , if a straight line , & c . Q.E. D. PROP . XXVIII . THEOREM . If a straight line BOOK ...
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... plane , when it makes right angles with every straight line meeting it in that plane . IV . A plane is perpendicular to a plane , when the straight lines drawn in one of the planes perpendicular to the common section of the two planes ...
... plane , when it makes right angles with every straight line meeting it in that plane . IV . A plane is perpendicular to a plane , when the straight lines drawn in one of the planes perpendicular to the common section of the two planes ...
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ABCD AC is equal adjacent angles angle ABC angle ACB angle BAC angle equal base BC bisect Book centre circle ABC circumference compounded constr DEMONSTRATION diameter double draw Edition English equal angles equal straight lines equal to BC equiangular equilateral and equiangular equimultiples Euclid exterior angle four magnitudes fourth French given circle given point given rectilineal angle given straight line gnomon Grammar greater ratio inscribed isosceles triangle join less Let ABC multiple opposite angles parallel parallelogram pentagon perpendicular plane polygon proportionals proposition Q. E. D. PROP rectangle contained rectilineal figure References-Prop remaining angle right angles segment similar solid angle square of AC straight line AC THEOREM third three straight lines touches the circle triangle ABC twice the rectangle wherefore
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Page 140 - 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 xiv - The straight line drawn at right angles to the diameter of a circle, from the extremity of it, falls without the circle...
Page 310 - IF a side of any triangle be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles ; and the three interior angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles.
Page 33 - 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 vi - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, four times the rectangle contained ~by the whole line and one of the parts, together with the square on the other part, is equal to the square on the straight line which is made up of the whole and that part.
Page 310 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Page xxxvii - The areas of two triangles which have an angle of the one equal to an angle of the other are to each other as the products of the sides including the equal angles. D c A' D' Hyp. In triangles ABC and A'B'C', ZA = ZA'. To prove AABC = ABxAC. A A'B'C' A'B'xA'C' Proof. Draw the altitudes BD and B'D'.
Page 69 - To divide a given straight line 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 287 - If any point be taken in the diameter of a circle which is not the centre, of all the straight lines which can be drawn from it to the circumference, the greatest is that in which the centre is, and the other part of that diameter is the least...