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... straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line : 3. That a circle may be described from any centre ... given centre , and at a given distance from that centre . In this axiom and the foregoing , it is evident that the ...
... straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line : 3. That a circle may be described from any centre ... given centre , and at a given distance from that centre . In this axiom and the foregoing , it is evident that the ...
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... straight lines shall at length meet upon that side , if they be continually produced . * PROPOSITION I. PROBLEM . + To describe an equilateral triangle on a given finite straight line . ‡ Let AB be the given straight line ; it is ...
... straight lines shall at length meet upon that side , if they be continually produced . * PROPOSITION I. PROBLEM . + To describe an equilateral triangle on a given finite straight line . ‡ Let AB be the given straight line ; it is ...
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... given straight line AB : which was required to be done . Scholium . If straight lines be drawn from A and B , to F , the other point in which the circles cut one another , it would be proved in the same manner that AFB is an equilateral ...
... given straight line AB : which was required to be done . Scholium . If straight lines be drawn from A and B , to F , the other point in which the circles cut one another , it would be proved in the same manner that AFB is an equilateral ...
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... straight line AF is equal to BC . Wherefore from the given point A a straight line AF has been drawn equal to the given straight line BC : which was to be done . PROP . III . PROB . FROM the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a ...
... straight line AF is equal to BC . Wherefore from the given point A a straight line AF has been drawn equal to the given straight line BC : which was to be done . PROP . III . PROB . FROM the greater of two given straight lines to cut off a ...
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... given angle BAC is bisected by the line AF : which was to be done . * PROP . X. PROB . + To bisect a given finite straight line . Let AB be the given line ; it is required to bisect it ... a straight line from C Book I. ] 17 OF EUCLID .
... given angle BAC is bisected by the line AF : which was to be done . * PROP . X. PROB . + To bisect a given finite straight line . Let AB be the given line ; it is required to bisect it ... a straight line from C Book I. ] 17 OF EUCLID .
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Page 94 - 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.
Page 53 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the squares of the whole line and of one of the parts are equal to twice the rectangle contained by the whole and that part, together with the square of the other part. Let the straight line AB be divided into any two parts at the point C : the squares of AB, BC shall be equal to twice the rectangle AB, BC, together with the square of AC.
Page 143 - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other and the sides about these equal angles proportional, the triangles are similar.
Page 4 - A rhombus is that which has all its sides equal, but its angles are not right angles.
Page 57 - To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts may be equal to the square on the other part.
Page 138 - IF a straight line be drawn parallel to one of the sides of a triangle, it shall cut the other sides, or those produced, proportionally; and if the sides, or the sides produced, be cut proportionally, the straight line which joins the points of section shall be parallel to the remaining side of the triangle...
Page 43 - In any right-angled triangle, the square which is described upon the side subtending the right angle, is equal to the squares described upon the sides which contain the right angle.
Page 32 - 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 40 - To a given straight line to apply a parallelogram, which shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.
Page 36 - PARALLELOGRAMS upon the same base, and between the same parallels, are equal to one another...