Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid, with a Supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle and the Geometry of Solids ; to which are Added Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry |
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Página iv
And indeed , if the geometer just named had written with a view of accommodating the Elements of Euclid to the present state of the mathematical sciences , it is not likely that any thing new in Elementary Geometry would have been soon ...
And indeed , if the geometer just named had written with a view of accommodating the Elements of Euclid to the present state of the mathematical sciences , it is not likely that any thing new in Elementary Geometry would have been soon ...
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... to remedy this inconvenience , I have endeavoured to introduce it here , in a very simple form however , and without changing the nature of the reasoning , or departing in any thing from the rigour of geometrical demonstration .
... to remedy this inconvenience , I have endeavoured to introduce it here , in a very simple form however , and without changing the nature of the reasoning , or departing in any thing from the rigour of geometrical demonstration .
Página x
That in the demonstration of a theorem , he never supposes any thing to be done , as any line to be drawn , or any figure to be constructed , the manner of doing which he has not previously explained . Now , the only use of this rule is ...
That in the demonstration of a theorem , he never supposes any thing to be done , as any line to be drawn , or any figure to be constructed , the manner of doing which he has not previously explained . Now , the only use of this rule is ...
Página xi
... as Euclid has done , the rule that excludes this , and sueh like hypotheses , is to create artificial difficulties , and to embarrass geometrical investigation with more obstacles than the nature of things bas thrown in its way .
... as Euclid has done , the rule that excludes this , and sueh like hypotheses , is to create artificial difficulties , and to embarrass geometrical investigation with more obstacles than the nature of things bas thrown in its way .
Página xii
... we give the name of the Method of Exhaustions , under a much simpler form than it appears in the 12 of Euclid ; and the spirit of the method may , I think , be best learned when it is thus disengaged from every thing not essential .
... we give the name of the Method of Exhaustions , under a much simpler form than it appears in the 12 of Euclid ; and the spirit of the method may , I think , be best learned when it is thus disengaged from every thing not essential .
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| Título | Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid, with a Supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle and the Geometry of Solids ; to which are Added Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry |
| Autor | John Playfair |
| Editor | E. Duyckinck, and George Long, 1824 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Indiana |
| Digitalizado | 15 Ene. 2009 |
| Largo | 333 páginas |
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