The Elements of Euclid: With Dissertations Intended to Assist and Encourage a Critical Examination of These Elements as the Most Effectual Means of Establishing a Juster Taste Upon Mathematical Subjects Than that which at Present Prevails |
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... fome very fixt and determinate impreffions upon the minds of the most inconfiderate . We cannot ftretch out our hand with- out receiving a perception of extenfion ; nor open our eyes without feeing figured objects , bringing along with ...
... fome very fixt and determinate impreffions upon the minds of the most inconfiderate . We cannot ftretch out our hand with- out receiving a perception of extenfion ; nor open our eyes without feeing figured objects , bringing along with ...
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... fome fuch manner as the following . Let the ftudent provide himself with a ruler and compaffes , and after fome practice in drawing ftraight lines , and defcribing circles ; he is next to proceed to the examination of the common notions ...
... fome fuch manner as the following . Let the ftudent provide himself with a ruler and compaffes , and after fome practice in drawing ftraight lines , and defcribing circles ; he is next to proceed to the examination of the common notions ...
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... fome point in each line : thus the inclination of FB to BC is called the angle FBC or CBF and the inclination of DB to BC is the very fame with the other , as is obvious , and is called the angle DBC or CBD the inclination of BC to CE ...
... fome point in each line : thus the inclination of FB to BC is called the angle FBC or CBF and the inclination of DB to BC is the very fame with the other , as is obvious , and is called the angle DBC or CBD the inclination of BC to CE ...
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... fome method by which our conceptions may be rendered more rational and confiftent ; and this is the original of definitions . CHA P. V. Of definitions . OUR author has proceeded with fingular judgement in laying down his principles ...
... fome method by which our conceptions may be rendered more rational and confiftent ; and this is the original of definitions . CHA P. V. Of definitions . OUR author has proceeded with fingular judgement in laying down his principles ...
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... fome of his definitions will be unintelligible ; for inftance his defi- nition of a straight line . He fays a ftraight line is that which lies evenly to the points in itself . Now if I am to conceive nothing previous to this ...
... fome of his definitions will be unintelligible ; for inftance his defi- nition of a straight line . He fays a ftraight line is that which lies evenly to the points in itself . Now if I am to conceive nothing previous to this ...
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Page 3 - Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Page 47 - If there be two straight lines, one of which is divided into any number of parts, the rectangle contained by the two straight lines is equal to the rectangles contained by the undivided line, and the several parts of the divided line. Let...
Page 68 - If a straight line drawn through the centre of a circle bisect a straight line in it which does not pass through the centre, it shall cut it at right angles : and if it cut it at right angles, it shall bisect it.
Page 45 - ABG ; (vi. 1.) therefore the triangle ABC has to the triangle ABG the duplicate ratio of that which BC has to EF: but the triangle ABG is equal to the triangle DEF; therefore also the triangle ABC has to the triangle DEF the duplicate ratio of that which BC has to EF. Therefore similar triangles, &c.
Page 15 - 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 86 - When you have proved that the three angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles...
Page 88 - EA : and because AD is equal to DC, and DE common to the triangles ADE, CDE, the two sides AD, DE are equal to the two CD, DE, each to each ; and the angle ADE is equal to the angle CDE, for each of them is a right angle ; therefore the base AE is equal (4.
Page 42 - If four straight lines be proportionals, the rectangle contained by the extremes is equal to the rectangle contained by the means ; And if the rectangle contained by the extremes be equal to the rectangle contained by the means, the four straight lines are proportionals. Let the four straight lines, AB, CD, E, F, be proportionals, viz.
Page 109 - Draw two diameters AC, BD of the circle ABCD, at right angles to one another; and through the points A, B. C, D, draw (17.
Page 8 - GB is equal to E, and CK to F ; therefore AB is the same multiple of E, that KH is of F: But AB...