 | Euclides - 1855 - 270 pages
...sides as the figure about which it is described has angles, and consequently as many angles. m. x- — A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when all the angular points of the inscribed figure are upon the circumference of the circle. IV. A rectilineal... | |
 | Eucleides - 1860 - 396 pages
...figure pass through the angular points of the figure about which it is circumscribed, each through each. 3. A Rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when all the angles of the inscribed figure are upon the circumference of the circle. 4. A Rectilineal figure... | |
 | Johann Georg Heck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 332 pages
...immediately or when produced cuts the circumference in two points, is called a secant, ab (fig. 46). A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle when all its sides are chords (fig. 45) ; it is said to be circumscribed about a circle when all its sides are tangents... | |
 | Euclides - 1860 - 288 pages
...pass through the angular points of the figure about .tvhich it is described, each through each. i ; 3. A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when all the angles of the inscribed figure are upon the circumference of the circle. 4. A rectilineal figure... | |
 | Robert Potts - Geometry, Plane - 1860 - 380 pages
...figure pass through the angular points of the figure about which it is described, each through each. m. A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when all the angular points of the inscribed figure are upon the circumference of the circle. C) IV. A rectilineal... | |
 | Janes Boddely Keene - 1861 - 104 pages
...number of their sides, as Pentagons (5 sides), Hexagons (6 sides), &c. Figs. 17 and 18. NOTE. — A figure is said to be inscribed in a circle when all its angles touch the circumference, and a circle is said to be inscribed in a figure when the circumference touches... | |
 | Euclides - 1861 - 464 pages
...of one rectilineal figure being inscribed in another rectilineal figure, or circumscribed about it. 3. A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle when each angular point of the inscribed figure touches the circumference of the circle ; Thus, the qu.... | |
 | Euclides - 1862 - 140 pages
...figure pass through the angular points of the figure about which it is described, each through each. 3. A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when all the angles of the inscribed figure are upon the circumference of the circle. 4. A rectilineal figure... | |
 | Euclides - 1862 - 172 pages
...figure pass through the angular points of the figure about which it is described, each through each. in. A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when all the angular points of the inscribed figure are upon the circumference of the circle. IV. A rectilineal... | |
 | Euclides - 1863 - 122 pages
...figure pass through the angular points of the figure about which it is described, each through each. HIA rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when all the angular points of the inscribed figure are upon tho circumference of the circle. IV. A rectilineal... | |
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A rectilineal figure is said to be described about a circle, when each side of the circumscribed figure touches the circumference of the circle. 5. In like manner, a circle is said to be inscribed... 
