The Elements of Euclid: With Dissertations Intended to Assist and Encourage a Critical Examination of These Elements as the Most Effectual Means of Establishing a Juster Taste Upon Mathematical Subjects Than that which at Present PrevailsPrinted at the Clarendon Press, 1781 - 309 Seiten |
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... understanding , fhew us better than any thing else , what human nature can rise and fall to . Both you and I are fufficiently fenfible of the great utility of mathematics in all the affairs of life ; and that those whom it concerns are ...
... understanding , fhew us better than any thing else , what human nature can rise and fall to . Both you and I are fufficiently fenfible of the great utility of mathematics in all the affairs of life ; and that those whom it concerns are ...
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... understanding of fo fublime a specu- lation . A book therefore , if this reafoning be juft , which would be proper for a learner would be fit for nobody elfe : and the greatest perfection of writing will ftill leave occafion and ...
... understanding of fo fublime a specu- lation . A book therefore , if this reafoning be juft , which would be proper for a learner would be fit for nobody elfe : and the greatest perfection of writing will ftill leave occafion and ...
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... understand the fubject better than he himself did . But I do not write to the ftrength but to the weakness of mankind ; and therefore would not chuse to be confidered as challenging the whole world to find fault , but only as applying a ...
... understand the fubject better than he himself did . But I do not write to the ftrength but to the weakness of mankind ; and therefore would not chuse to be confidered as challenging the whole world to find fault , but only as applying a ...
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... understand F that their number is above fourteen ; and that , CAB , CAF , CAD ; GAB , GAF , GAD ; D · EAB , EAF , EAD ; BAC , BAG , BAE ; FAC , FAG , FAE ; DAC , DAG , DAE ; are only fo many different ways of expreffing the fame angle ...
... understand F that their number is above fourteen ; and that , CAB , CAF , CAD ; GAB , GAF , GAD ; D · EAB , EAF , EAD ; BAC , BAG , BAE ; FAC , FAG , FAE ; DAC , DAG , DAE ; are only fo many different ways of expreffing the fame angle ...
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... understand by this definition ; or what can I infer from it ? The reader will be just as much at a loss to conceive the meaning of the word evenly , as of the straight line itself . But if we confider this definition as an improvement ...
... understand by this definition ; or what can I infer from it ? The reader will be just as much at a loss to conceive the meaning of the word evenly , as of the straight line itself . But if we confider this definition as an improvement ...
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Seite 3 - Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Seite 47 - If there be two straight lines, one of which is divided into any number of parts, the rectangle contained by the two straight lines is equal to the rectangles contained by the undivided line, and the several parts of the divided line. Let...
Seite 68 - If a straight line drawn through the centre of a circle bisect a straight line in it which does not pass through the centre, it shall cut it at right angles : and if it cut it at right angles, it shall bisect it.
Seite 45 - ABG ; (vi. 1.) therefore the triangle ABC has to the triangle ABG the duplicate ratio of that which BC has to EF: but the triangle ABG is equal to the triangle DEF; therefore also the triangle ABC has to the triangle DEF the duplicate ratio of that which BC has to EF. Therefore similar triangles, &c.
Seite 15 - When a straight line set up on a straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the equal angles is right, and the straight line standing on the other is called a perpendicular to that on which it stands.
Seite 86 - When you have proved that the three angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles...
Seite 88 - EA : and because AD is equal to DC, and DE common to the triangles ADE, CDE, the two sides AD, DE are equal to the two CD, DE, each to each ; and the angle ADE is equal to the angle CDE, for each of them is a right angle ; therefore the base AE is equal (4.
Seite 42 - If four straight lines be proportionals, the rectangle contained by the extremes is equal to the rectangle contained by the means ; And if the rectangle contained by the extremes be equal to the rectangle contained by the means, the four straight lines are proportionals. Let the four straight lines, AB, CD, E, F, be proportionals, viz.
Seite 109 - Draw two diameters AC, BD of the circle ABCD, at right angles to one another; and through the points A, B. C, D, draw (17.
Seite 8 - GB is equal to E, and CK to F ; therefore AB is the same multiple of E, that KH is of F: But AB...