Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid: With a Supplement ... to which are Added, Elements of Plane and Sphericale Trigonometry ... From the Last London Ed., Enl |
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... altitude of a triangle is the straight line drawn from its vertex perpendicular to the base . The altitude of a parallelogram is the perpendicu- lar which measures the distance of two oppo- site sides , taken as bases . And the altitude ...
... altitude of a triangle is the straight line drawn from its vertex perpendicular to the base . The altitude of a parallelogram is the perpendicu- lar which measures the distance of two oppo- site sides , taken as bases . And the altitude ...
Page 122
... altitudes , are to one another as their bases . Let the figures be placed so as to have their bases in the same straight line ; and having drawn perpendiculars from the vertices of the triangles to the bases , the straight line which ...
... altitudes , are to one another as their bases . Let the figures be placed so as to have their bases in the same straight line ; and having drawn perpendiculars from the vertices of the triangles to the bases , the straight line which ...
Page 123
... altitude , viz . the perpendicular drawn from the point E to AB , they are to one another as their bases ; and for the same reason , as the triangle CDE to the triangle ADE , so is CE to EA . Therefore , as BD to DA , so is CE to EA ...
... altitude , viz . the perpendicular drawn from the point E to AB , they are to one another as their bases ; and for the same reason , as the triangle CDE to the triangle ADE , so is CE to EA . Therefore , as BD to DA , so is CE to EA ...
Page 132
... altitude , AB : FE :: DB : BE ( 1. 6. ) , also , BC : FE :: GB : BF ( 1. 6. ) ; therefore DB : BE :: GB : BF ( 11. 5. ) . Wherefore , the sides of the parallelograms AB , BC about their equal angles are reciprocally pro- portional . But ...
... altitude , AB : FE :: DB : BE ( 1. 6. ) , also , BC : FE :: GB : BF ( 1. 6. ) ; therefore DB : BE :: GB : BF ( 11. 5. ) . Wherefore , the sides of the parallelograms AB , BC about their equal angles are reciprocally pro- portional . But ...
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... altitudes . SCHOLIUM . Hence the product of the base by the altitude may be assumed as the neasure of a rectangle , provided we understand by this product the pro- duct of two numbers , one of which is the number of linear units ...
... altitudes . SCHOLIUM . Hence the product of the base by the altitude may be assumed as the neasure of a rectangle , provided we understand by this product the pro- duct of two numbers , one of which is the number of linear units ...
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Page 3 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.
Page 112 - 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 64 - The angle in a semicircle is a right angle: the angle in a segment greater than a semicircle is less than a right angle ; and the angle in a segment less than a semicircle is greater than a right angle.
Page 38 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square of the whole line is equal to the squares of the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts.
Page 5 - Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. And that a circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre.
Page 280 - 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 267 - If a straight line meets two straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two right angles...
Page 133 - ... cuts the base, the rectangle contained by the sides of the triangle is equal to the rectangle contained by the segments of the base, together with the square on the straight line which bisects the angle.
Page 7 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 26 - THE straight lines which join the extremities of two equal and parallel straight lines, towards the same parts, are also themselves equal and parallel. Let AB, CD be equal and parallel straight lines, and joined towards the same parts by the straight lines AC, BD ; AC, BD are also equal and parallel.