The Elements of Euclid: Viz. the First Six Books, with the Eleventh and Twelfth. In which the Corrections of Dr. Simson are Generally Adopted, But the Errors Overlooked by Him are Corrected, and the Obscurities of His and Other Editions Explained. Also Some of Euclid's Demonstrations are Restored, Others Made Shorter and More General, and Several Useful Propositions are Added. Together with Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, and a Treatise on Practical GeometryJ. Pillans & sons, 1799 - 351 Seiten |
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... magnitudes , instead of being made different magnitudes , as they were before ; and thofe of them that are equimultiples , are marked with the fame letters : By which means , their de- pendence upon their magnitudes will be more evi ...
... magnitudes , instead of being made different magnitudes , as they were before ; and thofe of them that are equimultiples , are marked with the fame letters : By which means , their de- pendence upon their magnitudes will be more evi ...
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... magnitudes concerned are all commen- furable , or rather , that they exceed commenfurable magnitudes , by differences too inconfiderable to be taken notice of ; so that , when a measure is applied , for example , to a line , that line ...
... magnitudes concerned are all commen- furable , or rather , that they exceed commenfurable magnitudes , by differences too inconfiderable to be taken notice of ; so that , when a measure is applied , for example , to a line , that line ...
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... Magnitudes which coincide with one another , that is , which exactly fill the same space , are equal to one another . IX . The whole is greater than its part . X. Straight lines which do not coincide , cannot meet one another in See N ...
... Magnitudes which coincide with one another , that is , which exactly fill the same space , are equal to one another . IX . The whole is greater than its part . X. Straight lines which do not coincide , cannot meet one another in See N ...
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... MAGNITUDE is faid to be contained once , in any magni- Book V. tude not lefs than it , but lefs than its double : and it is faid to be contained twice , in any magnitude not lefs than ... Magnitudes are faid to have OF EUCLID . 109 THE ...
... MAGNITUDE is faid to be contained once , in any magni- Book V. tude not lefs than it , but lefs than its double : and it is faid to be contained twice , in any magnitude not lefs than ... Magnitudes are faid to have OF EUCLID . 109 THE ...
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... Magnitudes are faid to have a ratio to one another , when the lefs can be multiplied , fo as to exceed the other ; that is , when they are terminated , and of the fame kind .. C. In a ratio , the first named magnitude is called the ...
... Magnitudes are faid to have a ratio to one another , when the lefs can be multiplied , fo as to exceed the other ; that is , when they are terminated , and of the fame kind .. C. In a ratio , the first named magnitude is called the ...
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ABC is equal ABCD alfo alſo angle ABC angle ACB angle BAC arch bafe baſe becauſe the angle bifect Book XI cafe centre circle ABC circumference cofine confequently cylinder defcribed demonftrated diameter equal angles equiangular equimultiples Euclid exterior angle faid fame altitude fame manner fame multiple fame number fame ratio fame reaſon fecond fegment fhall fides fimilar firft firſt folid angle fome fore fquare fquare of AC fuperficies given ftraight line gnomon greater half the fum join lefs leſs Let ABC magnitudes meaſure oppofite angle pafs parallel parallelogram parallelopiped perpendicular plane angles prifm PROB propofition proportionals Q. E. D. PROP radius rectangle contained rectilineal figure remaining angle right angles ſhall ſquare tangent thefe THEOR theſe tiple triangle ABC Wherefore
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Seite 30 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and also one side of the one equal to the corresponding side of the other, the triangles are congruent.
Seite 142 - 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.
Seite 13 - Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Seite 30 - ... then shall the other sides be equal, each to each; and also the third angle of the one to the third angle of the other. Let ABC, DEF be two triangles which have the angles ABC, BCA equal to the angles DEF, EFD, viz.
Seite 72 - The diameter is the greatest straight line in a circle; and of all others, that which is nearer to the centre is always greater than one more remote; and the greater is nearer to the centre than the less. Let ABCD be a circle, of which...
Seite 57 - If then the sides of it, BE, ED are equal to one another, it is a square, and what was required is now done: But if they are not equal, produce one of them BE to F, and make EF equal to ED, and bisect BF in G : and from the centre G, at the distance GB, or GF, describe the semicircle...
Seite 145 - AC the same multiple of AD, that AB is of the part which is to be cut off from it : join BC, and draw DE parallel to it : then AE is the part required to be cut off.
Seite 48 - 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.
Seite 35 - F, which is the common vertex of the triangles ; that is, together with four right angles. Therefore all the angles of the figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Seite 10 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.