Greek Geometry from Thales to EuclidHodges, Figgis, & Company, 1889 - 237 Seiten |
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Seite ix
... CONSTRUCTION OF REGULAR POLYGONS AND OF THE REGULAR SOLIDS - DISCOVERY OF INCOMMENSURABLE QUANTITIES- THE APPLICATION OF AREAS THE DOCTRINE OF PROPORTION AND OF THE SIMILARITY OF FIGURES - THEOREMS ERRONEOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO PYTHA- GORAS ...
... CONSTRUCTION OF REGULAR POLYGONS AND OF THE REGULAR SOLIDS - DISCOVERY OF INCOMMENSURABLE QUANTITIES- THE APPLICATION OF AREAS THE DOCTRINE OF PROPORTION AND OF THE SIMILARITY OF FIGURES - THEOREMS ERRONEOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO PYTHA- GORAS ...
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... CONSTRUCTION OF ARCHYTAS'S SOLUTION - WAS PLATO THE INVEN- TOR OF THE METHOD OF GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS ? -PASSAGE IN THE ' REPUBLIC OF PLATO , IN WHICH THE BACKWARD STATE OF SOLID GEO- METRY IS NOTICED - YET ARCHYTAS HAD , FOR THE PERIOD ...
... CONSTRUCTION OF ARCHYTAS'S SOLUTION - WAS PLATO THE INVEN- TOR OF THE METHOD OF GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS ? -PASSAGE IN THE ' REPUBLIC OF PLATO , IN WHICH THE BACKWARD STATE OF SOLID GEO- METRY IS NOTICED - YET ARCHYTAS HAD , FOR THE PERIOD ...
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... construction of the mundane figures [ the regular solids ] . After him , Anaxagoras of Clazomenae contributed much to geometry , as also did Oenopides of Chios , who was somewhat junior to Anaxagoras ; and Plato has relating to it ...
... construction of the mundane figures [ the regular solids ] . After him , Anaxagoras of Clazomenae contributed much to geometry , as also did Oenopides of Chios , who was somewhat junior to Anaxagoras ; and Plato has relating to it ...
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George Johnston Allman. with its philosophy , whence also he proposed to himself the construction of the so - called Platonic bodies [ the regular solids ] as the final aim of his systematisation of the Elements . ' * Procli Diadochi in ...
George Johnston Allman. with its philosophy , whence also he proposed to himself the construction of the so - called Platonic bodies [ the regular solids ] as the final aim of his systematisation of the Elements . ' * Procli Diadochi in ...
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... construction , a method long before known to the Egyptians.23 Now , as Bretsch- neider denies to the Egyptians and to Thales any knowledge of the doctrine of proportion , it was plainly necessary , on this supposition , that Thales ...
... construction , a method long before known to the Egyptians.23 Now , as Bretsch- neider denies to the Egyptians and to Thales any knowledge of the doctrine of proportion , it was plainly necessary , on this supposition , that Thales ...
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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.