Euclid's Elements of Geometry: The Six First Books. To which are Added, Elements of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry, a System of Conick Sections, Elements of Natural Philosophy, as Far as it Relates to Astronomy, According to the Newtonian System, and Elements of Astronomy: with Notes |
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... meet with on the subject ; in reading a long dissertation on proportionals by Tacquet , I found the property , used in this work , as a definition of propor- tionals , mentioned by him , as belonging to all proportional magnitudes ...
... meet with on the subject ; in reading a long dissertation on proportionals by Tacquet , I found the property , used in this work , as a definition of propor- tionals , mentioned by him , as belonging to all proportional magnitudes ...
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... meet together , but are not in the same direction . 17. A rectilineal angle , is the inclination of two right lines , meeting each other , and not being in the same right line . 18. The legs of an angle , are the lines , which form the ...
... meet together , but are not in the same direction . 17. A rectilineal angle , is the inclination of two right lines , meeting each other , and not being in the same right line . 18. The legs of an angle , are the lines , which form the ...
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... meet , though ever so much produced both ways . 35. Of quadrilateral figures or quadrangles , a parallelogium , is one , whose opposite sides are parallel . 36. A square , is one , which has all its sides equal , and all its angles ...
... meet , though ever so much produced both ways . 35. Of quadrilateral figures or quadrangles , a parallelogium , is one , whose opposite sides are parallel . 36. A square , is one , which has all its sides equal , and all its angles ...
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... meet these circles in the points C and D. Then , since the C point C is without the circle AED , and the point B within the same circle , and the circles BEC , AED , are continued lines on each side of the right line CD [ def . 10 ] ...
... meet these circles in the points C and D. Then , since the C point C is without the circle AED , and the point B within the same circle , and the circles BEC , AED , are continued lines on each side of the right line CD [ def . 10 ] ...
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... meet either towards B , D or A , C [ Def . 34. ] ; let them , if possible , being produced towards B , D , meet , as in G , and the ex- ternal angle AEF , of the triangle EFG , is greater than the in- ternal remote one EFG ( 16. 1 ) ...
... meet either towards B , D or A , C [ Def . 34. ] ; let them , if possible , being produced towards B , D , meet , as in G , and the ex- ternal angle AEF , of the triangle EFG , is greater than the in- ternal remote one EFG ( 16. 1 ) ...
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Page 42 - Therefore all the interior angles of the figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Page 176 - If two triangles have an angle of one equal to an angle of the other...
Page 118 - To describe an isosceles triangle, having each of the angles at the base double of the third angle.
Page 15 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds.
Page 444 - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
Page 96 - Upon the same straight line, and upon the same side of it, there cannot be two similar segments of circles, not coinciding with one another.
Page 386 - ... figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has be divided into as many triangles as the figure has sides, by drawing straight lines from a point F within the figure to each of its angles.
Page 49 - Equal triangles on the same base, and on the same side of it, are between the same parallels.