The Elements of Euclid: Viz, the First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh and Twelfth ; the Errors, by which Theon, Or Others, Have Long Ago Vitiated These Books, are Corrected, and Some of Euclid's Demonstrations are Restored ; Also the Book of Euclid's Data, in Like Manner Corrected |
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... diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the cen- tre , and terminated both ways by the circumference . XVIII . A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by that diameter ...
... diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the cen- tre , and terminated both ways by the circumference . XVIII . A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by that diameter ...
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... diameter is the straight line joining two of its opposite angles . Let ACDB be a parallelogram , of which BC is a diameter ; the opposite sides and angles of the figure are equal to one another : and the diameter BC bisects it ...
... diameter is the straight line joining two of its opposite angles . Let ACDB be a parallelogram , of which BC is a diameter ; the opposite sides and angles of the figure are equal to one another : and the diameter BC bisects it ...
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... diameter BC divides the parallelogram ACDB into two equal parts . Q. E. D. PROP . XXXV . THEOR . PARALLELOGRAMS upon the same base , and between the same parallels , are equal to one another . * Let the parallelograms ABCD , EBCF be ...
... diameter BC divides the parallelogram ACDB into two equal parts . Q. E. D. PROP . XXXV . THEOR . PARALLELOGRAMS upon the same base , and between the same parallels , are equal to one another . * Let the parallelograms ABCD , EBCF be ...
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... . 1. ) to DBCF , because they are upon the same base BC , and between the same parallels BC , EF ; and the triangle ABC is the half of the parallelogram EBCA , because the diameter AB BOOK I. 39 THE ELEMENTS OF EUCLID .
... . 1. ) to DBCF , because they are upon the same base BC , and between the same parallels BC , EF ; and the triangle ABC is the half of the parallelogram EBCA , because the diameter AB BOOK I. 39 THE ELEMENTS OF EUCLID .
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... diameter AB bisects it ; and the triangle DEF is the half ( 34. 1. ) of the parallelogram DEFH , because the diameter DF bisects it : but the halves of equal things are equal ; ( 7. Ax . ) therefore the triangle ABC is equal to the tri ...
... diameter AB bisects it ; and the triangle DEF is the half ( 34. 1. ) of the parallelogram DEFH , because the diameter DF bisects it : but the halves of equal things are equal ; ( 7. Ax . ) therefore the triangle ABC is equal to the tri ...
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Page 9 - Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Page 81 - The angles in the same segment of a circle are equal to one another.
Page 315 - Equiangular parallelograms have to one another the ratio which is compounded of the ratios of their sides.
Page 33 - 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 49 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts, is equal to the rectangle contained by the two parts, together with the square of the aforesaid part.
Page 96 - If from any point without a circle two straight lines be drawn, one of which cuts the circle, and the other touches it ; the rectangle contained by the whole line which cuts the circle, and the part of it without the circle, shall be equal to the square of the line which touches it.
Page 155 - 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 22 - ANY two angles of a triangle are together less than two right angles.
Page 25 - Let A, B, C be the three given straight lines, of which any two whatever are greater than the third, viz.
Page 24 - Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side.