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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... right angled triangle with unequal fides , being afraid to meddle with circular arches , leaft we should conjure up ... angles ) upon paper , taking care to make the lines une- qual , to prevent prejudice . After these are made , their ...
... right angled triangle with unequal fides , being afraid to meddle with circular arches , leaft we should conjure up ... angles ) upon paper , taking care to make the lines une- qual , to prevent prejudice . After these are made , their ...
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... right angles ; and the other two have their names accor- ding as the angle is greater or lefs than this . The reader has been very inattentive to my directions upon this head , if he does not perceive , that there is an unlimited ...
... right angles ; and the other two have their names accor- ding as the angle is greater or lefs than this . The reader has been very inattentive to my directions upon this head , if he does not perceive , that there is an unlimited ...
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... right and wrong , and become so much interested as to give the question a serious examination . But the cafe is very ... angles , contained by the equal fides , equal ; it is required to make the third fide , equal to the third fide ; and the ...
... right and wrong , and become so much interested as to give the question a serious examination . But the cafe is very ... angles , contained by the equal fides , equal ; it is required to make the third fide , equal to the third fide ; and the ...
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... right angles ; but we can by no means infer from this that the lines will meet whenever the angles are less than two right angles . But again he has demon- strated in the twenty eighth propofition ; that when these angles are equal to ...
... right angles ; but we can by no means infer from this that the lines will meet whenever the angles are less than two right angles . But again he has demon- strated in the twenty eighth propofition ; that when these angles are equal to ...
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... angle BAC is greater than the angle EDF ; confequences are tacitly drawn from it , like the taking for granted that the ... right angles : and in the thirtieth propofition , by what principle he makes a straight line pass through three ...
... angle BAC is greater than the angle EDF ; confequences are tacitly drawn from it , like the taking for granted that the ... right angles : and in the thirtieth propofition , by what principle he makes a straight line pass through three ...
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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...