Elements of Geometry: With Practical Applications, for the Use of SchoolsRichardson, Lord & Holbrook, 1829 - 129 páginas |
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Página iv
... diameter ; also several of the properties of a triangle by inscribing it in a circle . The division of the work into three sections , is founded in the nature of the subject . Extension , or the space which matter occupies , has three ...
... diameter ; also several of the properties of a triangle by inscribing it in a circle . The division of the work into three sections , is founded in the nature of the subject . Extension , or the space which matter occupies , has three ...
Página vii
... prisoned on account of his opinions respecting astrono my , and during his confinement employed himself in attempting to find the quadrature of the circle , or the ratio of the circumference to the diameter . It is INTRODUCTION, ...
... prisoned on account of his opinions respecting astrono my , and during his confinement employed himself in attempting to find the quadrature of the circle , or the ratio of the circumference to the diameter . It is INTRODUCTION, ...
Página viii
... diameter . It is re- markable that the first attempt to solve the most famous problem in Geometry , should have been a prison amusement . Pythagoras was born about 580 years before Christ . After having travelled into Egypt and India ...
... diameter . It is re- markable that the first attempt to solve the most famous problem in Geometry , should have been a prison amusement . Pythagoras was born about 580 years before Christ . After having travelled into Egypt and India ...
Página ix
... diameter . He demonstrated that calling the diameter 1 , the circumfe- rence is between 340 and 340 ; and the principles laid down by him in this demonstration , have formed the basis of all succeeding approximations . It is generally ...
... diameter . He demonstrated that calling the diameter 1 , the circumfe- rence is between 340 and 340 ; and the principles laid down by him in this demonstration , have formed the basis of all succeeding approximations . It is generally ...
Página xii
... diameter . also employed by Ludolph Van Ceulen , a Dutch geom- eter contemporary with Cavalleri , for the same purpose . This man had the patience to carry the approximation to 36 figures . It was Another contemporary of Cavalleri ...
... diameter . also employed by Ludolph Van Ceulen , a Dutch geom- eter contemporary with Cavalleri , for the same purpose . This man had the patience to carry the approximation to 36 figures . It was Another contemporary of Cavalleri ...
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A B C D A B fig adjacent angles angles are equal axis B A C base and altitude base multiplied bisect called centre chord circ circumference coincide contain convex surface cube cylinder definition demonstrated diameter divided draw equally distant equivalent found by multiplying frustum geometry given line given square greater half the arc Hence homologous sides hypothenuse inches infinite number infinitely small inscribed angles inscribed circle line A B line drawn linear unit mean proportional number of sides parallel sides parallelopiped perim perpendicular polyedrons preceding proposition proved pyramid radii radius regular polygon right angles right parallelogram right triangle semicircumference similar triangles solid angles sphere square feet straight line suppose tangent THEOREM.-The solidity tion trapezoid triangle A B C triangles are equal triangular prism vertex vertices
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Página ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Página 48 - The areas of two triangles which have an angle of the one equal to an angle of the other are to each other as the products of the sides including the equal angles. D c A' D' Hyp. In triangles ABC and A'B'C', ZA = ZA'. To prove AABC = ABxAC. A A'B'C' A'B'xA'C' Proof. Draw the altitudes BD and B'D'.
Página 63 - The square described on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equivalent to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.
Página ii - ... and also to an Act, entitled, " An Act- supplementary to an Act, entitled, ' An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the limes therein mentioned ;' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical, and other prints.
Página xiv - If a straight line meets 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 xv - LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Página 41 - In any proportion, the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes.
Página xiv - Things which are double of the same, are equal to one another. 7. Things which are halves of the same, are equal to one another.
Página 42 - Multiplying or dividing both the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction.
Página xiv - Things which are halves of the same are equal to one another. 8. Magnitudes which coincide with one another, that is, which exactly fill the same space, are equal to one another. 9. The whole is greater than its part. 10. Two straight lines cannot enclose a space. 11. All right angles are equal to one another.