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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... reader by expreffing geo- metrical ideas in common language . But whatever your opinion of the work may be , I beg of you to accept of this addrefs , as a teftimony of the high efteem which I have for your character and abi- lities . It ...
... reader by expreffing geo- metrical ideas in common language . But whatever your opinion of the work may be , I beg of you to accept of this addrefs , as a teftimony of the high efteem which I have for your character and abi- lities . It ...
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... reader . CHA P. I. Of the neceffity and ufe of commentaries . THE dulness of commentators is a fubject of fuch ... readers , and rescued his works out of such clumfy hands . What apology therefore shall I be able to make for loading with ...
... reader . CHA P. I. Of the neceffity and ufe of commentaries . THE dulness of commentators is a fubject of fuch ... readers , and rescued his works out of such clumfy hands . What apology therefore shall I be able to make for loading with ...
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... reader was endued with the faculty of attention and as this is a difpofition of mind with which the book is but rarely taken up , though it will always be laid down with it , or else it has been used to little purpose : a few seasonable ...
... reader was endued with the faculty of attention and as this is a difpofition of mind with which the book is but rarely taken up , though it will always be laid down with it , or else it has been used to little purpose : a few seasonable ...
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... readers imagination as much as they affifted it before . For instance , who could relish the nobleft of Newton's ... reader however will be disappointed , if he expect to find Euclid either corrected or enlarged , my purpose being ...
... readers imagination as much as they affifted it before . For instance , who could relish the nobleft of Newton's ... reader however will be disappointed , if he expect to find Euclid either corrected or enlarged , my purpose being ...
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... reader may believe that I never would have introduced this advice with so much form and circumftance , without a firm per- fwasion that it is of the last importance . He is therefore immedi- ately to fet about the work , by defcribing a ...
... reader may believe that I never would have introduced this advice with so much form and circumftance , without a firm per- fwasion that it is of the last importance . He is therefore immedi- ately to fet about the work , by defcribing a ...
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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...