The Elements of Euclid: Viz. the First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh and Twelfth ... Also the Book of Euclid's Data, in Like Manner CorrectedWingrave and Collingwood, 1816 - 528 pages |
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Page 49
... double of AK : But twice the rectangle AB , BC is double of AK , for BK is equal to BC : Therefore the gno- mon AKF , together with the square CK , is equal to twice the rectangle AB , BC : To each of these equals H © Cor . 4. 2 . E add ...
... double of AK : But twice the rectangle AB , BC is double of AK , for BK is equal to BC : Therefore the gno- mon AKF , together with the square CK , is equal to twice the rectangle AB , BC : To each of these equals H © Cor . 4. 2 . E add ...
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... double of the square of half the line , and of the square of the line be tween the points of section . Let the straight line AB be divided at the point C into two equal , and at D into two unequal parts : The squares of AD , DB are ...
... double of the square of half the line , and of the square of the line be tween the points of section . Let the straight line AB be divided at the point C into two equal , and at D into two unequal parts : The squares of AD , DB are ...
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... double h 34. 1. of the square GF ; and GF is equal to CD ; therefore the square of EF is double of the square of CD : But the square of AE is likewise double of the square of AC ; therefore the squares of AE , EF are double of the ...
... double h 34. 1. of the square GF ; and GF is equal to CD ; therefore the square of EF is double of the square of CD : But the square of AE is likewise double of the square of AC ; therefore the squares of AE , EF are double of the ...
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... double of the square of CA : But the square of EA is equal1 to the squares of EC , CA ; there- 1 47. 1 . fore the square of EA is double of the square of AC : Again , because GF is equal to FE , the square of GF is equal to the square ...
... double of the square of CA : But the square of EA is equal1 to the squares of EC , CA ; there- 1 47. 1 . fore the square of EA is double of the square of AC : Again , because GF is equal to FE , the square of GF is equal to the square ...
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... doubles of these are equal : Therefore the squares of AB , BC are equal to the square of AC , and twice the rectangle DB , BC : Therefore the square of AC alone is less than the squares of AB , BC , by twice the rect- angle DB , BC ...
... doubles of these are equal : Therefore the squares of AB , BC are equal to the square of AC , and twice the rectangle DB , BC : Therefore the square of AC alone is less than the squares of AB , BC , by twice the rect- angle DB , BC ...
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Page 41 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square of the whole line is equal to the squares of the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts.
Page 180 - 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 166 - Equiangular parallelograms have to one another the ratio which is compounded of the ratios of their sides. Let AC, CF be equiangular parallelograms having the angle BCD equal to the angle ECG ; the ratio of the parallelogram AC to the parallelogram CF is the same with the ratio which is compounded •f the ratios of their sides. DH Let BC, CG be placed in a straight line ; therefore DC and CE are also in a straight line (14.
Page 2 - A rhomboid, is that which has its opposite sides equal to one another, but all its sides are not equal, nor its angles right angles.
Page 105 - The first of four magnitudes is said to have the same ratio to the second, which the third has to the fourth, when any equimultiples whatsoever of the first and third being taken, and any equimultiples whatsoever of the second and fourth ; if the multiple of the first be less than that of the second, the multiple of the third is also less than that of the fourth...
Page 79 - The angle in a semicircle is a right angle; the angle in a segment greater than a semicircle is less than a right angle; and the angle in a segment less than a semicircle is greater than a right angle.
Page 1 - A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points.
Page 149 - 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 23 - That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines make the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which are the angles less than the two right angles.
Page 83 - Wherefore from the given circle ABC has been cut off the segment BAC, containing an angle equal to the given angle DQEP PROP. XXXV. THEOR. If two straight lines within a circle cut one another, the rectangle contained by the segments of one of them is equal to the rectangle contained by the segments of the other. Let the...