Euclid's Elements of Geometry: The First Six, the Eleventh and Twelfth Books |
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Page i
... thefe his Elements , is faid to have anfavered : M εἶναι βασιλικὴν ἀτραπὸν ἐπὶ γεωμετρίαν , There is no other way , or royal paffage , to Geometry . Proclus's Commentary upon Euclid's fecond book , LONDON , Printed for JOHN RIVINGTON ...
... thefe his Elements , is faid to have anfavered : M εἶναι βασιλικὴν ἀτραπὸν ἐπὶ γεωμετρίαν , There is no other way , or royal paffage , to Geometry . Proclus's Commentary upon Euclid's fecond book , LONDON , Printed for JOHN RIVINGTON ...
Page iii
... thefe may be acquired in a great measure from arithme- tic and geometry : these two fciences may truly be faid to be the two great fountains from whence much of the wifdom and happiness of mankind flow : And therefore , if poffible ...
... thefe may be acquired in a great measure from arithme- tic and geometry : these two fciences may truly be faid to be the two great fountains from whence much of the wifdom and happiness of mankind flow : And therefore , if poffible ...
Page iv
... thefe fciences , and their excel- lencies , and the major part of crafty Jefuits and other fpiritual juglers , retailers of nonfenfe and fpreaders of lies , have been always afperfing and leffening them , because , by their evidence ...
... thefe fciences , and their excel- lencies , and the major part of crafty Jefuits and other fpiritual juglers , retailers of nonfenfe and fpreaders of lies , have been always afperfing and leffening them , because , by their evidence ...
Page v
... thefe fhould be known , in a competent degree , more especially by all statesmen , lawyers , foldiers , fail- ors , phyficians , furgeons , artificers , & c . where- by they would all be better fitted for their feveral employments ...
... thefe fhould be known , in a competent degree , more especially by all statesmen , lawyers , foldiers , fail- ors , phyficians , furgeons , artificers , & c . where- by they would all be better fitted for their feveral employments ...
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... thefe , with the reft , are altogether ufually called Euclid's Elements of Geometry . The tenth book , being the Elements of the doctrine of incommenfurability , is indeed fine ; but its length , and apparent inutility in any of the ...
... thefe , with the reft , are altogether ufually called Euclid's Elements of Geometry . The tenth book , being the Elements of the doctrine of incommenfurability , is indeed fine ; but its length , and apparent inutility in any of the ...
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Page 247 - 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 30 - 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 248 - But it was proved that the angle AGB is equal to the angle at F ; therefore the angle at F is greater than a right angle : But by the hypothesis, it is less than a right angle ; which is absurd.
Page 18 - When a straight line set up on a straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the equal angles is right, and the straight line standing on the other is called a perpendicular to that on which it stands.
Page 32 - Let the straight line EF, which falls upon the two straight lines AB, CD, make the alternate angles AEF, EFD equal to one another; AB is parallel to CD.
Page 56 - 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.
Page 391 - KL: but the cylinder CM is equal to the cylinder EB, and the axis LN to the axis GH; therefore as the cylinder EB to...
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Page 130 - When you have proved that the three angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles...
Page 183 - FK : in the same manner it may be demonstrated, that FL, FM, FG are each of them equal to FH, or FK : therefore the five straight lines FG, FH, FK, FL, FM are equal to one another : wherefore the circle described from the centre F, at the distance of...