The Elements of Euclid: The Errors, by which Theon, Or Others, Have Long Ago Vitiated These Books, are Corrected, and Some of Euclid's Demonstrations are Restored. Also, The Book of Euclid's Data, in Like Manner Corrected. viz. the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfthMathew Carey, and sold by J. Conrad & Company, S. F. Bradford, Birch & Small, and Samuel Etheridge. Printed by T. & G. Palmer, 116, High-Street., 1806 - 518 pages |
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... figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by the diameter . ΧΙΧ . " A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line " and the circumference it cuts off . " xx . Rectilineal figures are ...
... figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by the diameter . ΧΙΧ . " A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line " and the circumference it cuts off . " xx . Rectilineal figures are ...
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... figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by the diameter . ΧΙΧ . " A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line " and the circumference it cuts off . " xx . Rectilineal figures are ...
... figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by the diameter . ΧΙΧ . " A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line " and the circumference it cuts off . " xx . Rectilineal figures are ...
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... rectilineal figure , together with four right angles , are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides . For any rectilineal figure ABCDE can be divided into as many triangles as the figure has sides , by drawing ...
... rectilineal figure , together with four right angles , are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides . For any rectilineal figure ABCDE can be divided into as many triangles as the figure has sides , by drawing ...
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... figure , together with four right angles , are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides . 15. 1 . A COR . 2. All the exterior angles of any rectilineal figure , are together equal to four right angles . Because every ...
... figure , together with four right angles , are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides . 15. 1 . A COR . 2. All the exterior angles of any rectilineal figure , are together equal to four right angles . Because every ...
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... figure ABCD , which are therefore called the complements ; the complement BK is equal to the complement KD ... rectilineal angle . Let AB be the given straight line , and C the given triangle , and D the given rectilineal angle ...
... figure ABCD , which are therefore called the complements ; the complement BK is equal to the complement KD ... rectilineal angle . Let AB be the given straight line , and C the given triangle , and D the given rectilineal angle ...
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Page 28 - Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side.
Page 62 - To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, may be equal to the square of the other part.
Page 28 - IF, from the ends of the side of a triangle, there be drawn two straight lines to a point within the triangle, these shall be less than the other two sides of the triangle, but shall contain a greater angle. Let...
Page 57 - PROP. VIII. THEOR. IF a straight line be divided into any two parts, tour times the rectangle contained by the whole line, and one of the parts, together with the square of the other part, is equal to the square of the straight line which is made up of the whole and that part.
Page 26 - If one side of a triangle be produced, the exterior angle is greater than either of the interior opposite angles.
Page 163 - 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.
Page 17 - THE angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another : and, if the equal sides be produced, the angles upon the other side of the base shall be equal.
Page 189 - In right angled triangles, the rectilineal figure described upon the side opposite to the right angle, is equal to the similar, and similarly described figures upon the sides containing the right angle.
Page 37 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sidef. For any rectilineal figure ABCDE can be divided into as many triangles as the figure has sides, by drawing straight lines from a point F within the figure to each of its angles.
Page 178 - Therefore, universally, similar rectilineal figures are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides.