Greek Geometry from Thales to EuclidHodges, Figgis, & Company, 1889 - 237 Seiten |
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... HISTORY OF GEOMETRY- THE HISTORIC SUMMARY OF PROCLUS , PAGES . 1-6 CHAPTER I. THALES . THE FOUNDER OF GREEK GEOMETRY - CHARACTERISTIC FEATURE OF HIS WORK-- DISTINCTION BETWEEN GREEK SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE OF THE ORIEN- TALS - NOTICES ...
... HISTORY OF GEOMETRY- THE HISTORIC SUMMARY OF PROCLUS , PAGES . 1-6 CHAPTER I. THALES . THE FOUNDER OF GREEK GEOMETRY - CHARACTERISTIC FEATURE OF HIS WORK-- DISTINCTION BETWEEN GREEK SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE OF THE ORIEN- TALS - NOTICES ...
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... HISTORY OF GEOMETRY OF EUDEMUS - NOTICES OF THE WORK DONE BY OTHER GEOMETERS OF THIS PERIOD - DEMOCRITUS - HIS MATHEMATICAL WRITINGS - PROBLEM OF THE DUPLICATION OF THE CUBE - REDUCED BY HIPPOCRATES TO THE FINDING OF TWO MEAN ...
... HISTORY OF GEOMETRY OF EUDEMUS - NOTICES OF THE WORK DONE BY OTHER GEOMETERS OF THIS PERIOD - DEMOCRITUS - HIS MATHEMATICAL WRITINGS - PROBLEM OF THE DUPLICATION OF THE CUBE - REDUCED BY HIPPOCRATES TO THE FINDING OF TWO MEAN ...
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... HISTORY OF SCIENCE , 128-152 CHAPTER VI . THE SUCCESSORS OF EUDOXUS - I . MENAECHMUS . NOTICES OF MENAECHMUS AND OF HIS WORK - HIS SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF THE DUPLICATION OF THE CUBE - HE DISCOVERED THE THREE CONIC SECTIONS - PASSAGE ...
... HISTORY OF SCIENCE , 128-152 CHAPTER VI . THE SUCCESSORS OF EUDOXUS - I . MENAECHMUS . NOTICES OF MENAECHMUS AND OF HIS WORK - HIS SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF THE DUPLICATION OF THE CUBE - HE DISCOVERED THE THREE CONIC SECTIONS - PASSAGE ...
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George Johnston Allman. GREEK GEOMETRY FROM THALES TO EUCLID . ' INTRODUCTION . Object of this Work . - Authorities on the Early History of Geometry . - The Historic Summary of Proclus . IN N studying the development of Greek Science ...
George Johnston Allman. GREEK GEOMETRY FROM THALES TO EUCLID . ' INTRODUCTION . Object of this Work . - Authorities on the Early History of Geometry . - The Historic Summary of Proclus . IN N studying the development of Greek Science ...
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... History of Geometry by Eudemus of Rhodes , one of the principal pupils of Aristotle . A sum- mary of the history of geometry during the whole period of which I am about to treat has been preserved by Pro- clus , who most probably ...
... History of Geometry by Eudemus of Rhodes , one of the principal pupils of Aristotle . A sum- mary of the history of geometry during the whole period of which I am about to treat has been preserved by Pro- clus , who most probably ...
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ancient Apollonius Archim Archimedes Archytas Aristaeus Aristotle arithmetic Athens attributed Book Bretsch Bretschneider Cantor circle Cobet cone conic sections construction cube curve Cyzicus Delian Democritus diameter Diog Diogenes Laertius discovery doctrine of proportion dodecahedron Dublin Egyptians Elements equal Eratosthenes Euclid Eudemus Eudoxus Eukl Eutocius extreme and mean figure Friedlein further Geom Gesch given line gnomon Greek Hankel Heiberg Hippias of Elis Hippocrates of Chios History of Geometry Hultsch Iamblichus Ibid incommensurable inscribed Laert lune Math mathematics mean proportionals mean ratio Menaechmus method Montucla Pappus parabola passage Paul Tannery pentagon perpendicular philosophy plane Plato Plutarch probably problem Proclus proof pupil Pyth Pytha Pythagoras Pythagoreans quadrant quadratrix quadrature rectangle referred regular solids right angles right-angled triangles says segments semicircle sides Simplicius solution solved square Tannery Thales Theaetetus theorem tion δὲ καὶ μὲν περὶ τὰ τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν
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Seite 10 - After remarking that the mathematician positively knows that the sum of the three angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles...
Seite 145 - ... proclaim it as an authoritative dogma, silencing or disparaging all objectors — that Grecian speculation aspires. To unmask not only positive falsehood, but even affirmation without evidence, exaggerated confidence in what was only doubtful, and show of knowledge without the reality — to look at a problem on all sides, and set forth all the difficulties attending its solution — to take account of deductions from the affirmative evidence, even in the case of conclusions accepted as true...
Seite 219 - The Elements of Geometrie of the most auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, Citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine Scholies, Annotations, and Inuentions, of the best Mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age.
Seite 40 - To divide a given straight line into two parts so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one part shall be equal to the square on the other part...
Seite 76 - In obtuse-angled triangles, if a perpendicular be drawn from either of the acute angles to the opposite side produced, the square on the side subtending the obtuse angle is greater than the squares on the sides containing the obtuse angle, by twice the rectangle contained by the side...
Seite 135 - ... the gnomon NOL is equal to C; therefore also AX is equal to C. Wherefore to the straight line AB there is applied the parallelogram AX equal to the given rectilineal figure C, exceeding by the parallelogram PO, which is similar to D, because PO is similar to EL.
Seite 126 - State, they would some day emerge into light. Yes, he said, there is a remarkable charm in them. But I do not clearly understand the change in the order. First you began with a geometry of plane surfaces ? Yes, I said.
Seite 125 - ... solids in revolution, instead of taking solids in themselves; whereas after the second dimension the third, which is concerned with cubes and dimensions of depth, ought to have followed.