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 TrigonometryJ.P. Lippincott & Company, 1855 - 318 páginas |
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ABCD altitude angle ABC angle BAC base bisected Book called centre chord circle circle ABC circumference coincide common consequently construction definition demonstrated described diameter difference divided double draw drawn equal equal angles equiangular Euclid exterior angle extremity fall fore four given given straight line greater half Hence inscribed interior join less Let ABC magnitudes manner mean meet multiple opposite parallel parallelogram pass perpendicular plane polygon prism PROB produced PROP proportional proposition proved radius ratio reason rectangle contained rectilineal figure remaining right angles segment shewn sides similar sine solid spherical square straight line taken tangent THEOR third touch triangle ABC wherefore whole
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Página 41 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts; the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square of the line between the points of section, is equal to the square of half the line.
Página 70 - The angle in a semicircle is a right angle; the angle in a segment greater than a semicircle is less than a right angle; and the angle in a segment less than a semicircle is greater than a right angle.
Página 45 - Again, because the angle at B is half a right angle, and FDB a right angle, for it is equal...
Página 91 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and one side equal to one side, viz. either the sides adjacent to the equal...
Página 273 - If a straight line meet two straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two right angles...
Página 25 - Parallelograms upon the same base and between the same parallels, are equal to one another.
Página 130 - Equiangular parallelograms have to one another the ratio which is compounded of the ratios of their sides.
Página 61 - 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...