Euclid's Elements of Geometry: Chiefly from the Text of Dr. Simson...together with a Selection of Geometrical Exercises from the Senate-house and College Examination Papers .... the first six books, and the portions of the eleventh and twelfth books read at Cambridge

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Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1865 - 504 pages

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Page 23 - 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.
Page xiv - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Page 6 - 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 29 - 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 71 - If a straight line be bisected, and produced to any point ; the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced, and the part of it produced, together with the square of half the line bisected, is equal to the square of the straight line which is made up of the half and the part produced.
Page 15 - The angles which one straight line makes with another upon one side of it, are either two right angles, or are together equal to two right angles. Let the straight line AB make with CD, upon one side of it, the angles CBA, ABD : these shall either be two right angles, or shall together be equal to two right angles. For...
Page 242 - Wherefore, in equal circles &c. QED PROPOSITION B. THEOREM If the vertical angle of a triangle be bisected by a straight line which likewise 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 2 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another.
Page 34 - Equal triangles, upon equal bases in the same straight line, and towards the same parts, are between the same parallels. Let the equal triangles ABC, DEF be upon equal bases BC, EF, in the same straight line BF, and towards the same parts.
Page 28 - IF a side of any triangle be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles ; and the three interior angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles.

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