Lectures on the Principles of Demonstrative MathematicsA. and C. Black, 1843 - 147 páginas |
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... instance they are erroneous , I am confident that those who are best able to set me right will be most ready to pardon the error . In discussing the principles of mathematical science , it is impossible not to have come in collision ...
... instance they are erroneous , I am confident that those who are best able to set me right will be most ready to pardon the error . In discussing the principles of mathematical science , it is impossible not to have come in collision ...
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... instances , they and their lucubrations have been forgotten together . Frequently , too , the component parts of the principles of a science have floated obscurely in the minds of men long before they have been embodied and reduced to ...
... instances , they and their lucubrations have been forgotten together . Frequently , too , the component parts of the principles of a science have floated obscurely in the minds of men long before they have been embodied and reduced to ...
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... instance , are very different in this respect from those of Geometry . One of these which I referred to in my last lecture , " that light may be represented by right lines , " is neither the neces- sary result of experience , nor is it ...
... instance , are very different in this respect from those of Geometry . One of these which I referred to in my last lecture , " that light may be represented by right lines , " is neither the neces- sary result of experience , nor is it ...
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... instance , assumes that bodies tend towards the centre of the earth : -Since they may or may not do so , his admitting that they do is an hypothesis . Now this differs altogether from one of the principles of geometry , and the two must ...
... instance , assumes that bodies tend towards the centre of the earth : -Since they may or may not do so , his admitting that they do is an hypothesis . Now this differs altogether from one of the principles of geometry , and the two must ...
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... instance , appears round at a distance . * It belongs to our innate faculty of perception to con- ceive rightly of a ... instances may be found of insufficient defi- nitions . It will be enough to mention Euclid's first . " A point is ...
... instance , appears round at a distance . * It belongs to our innate faculty of perception to con- ceive rightly of a ... instances may be found of insufficient defi- nitions . It will be enough to mention Euclid's first . " A point is ...
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Página 64 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.
Página 38 - A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference.
Página 52 - Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side.
Página 96 - ... of the second and fourth ; if the multiple of the first be less than that of the second, the multiple of the third is also less than that of the fourth: or, if the multiple of the first be equal to that of the second, the multiple of the third is also equal to that of the fourth...
Página 122 - Whatever form is algebraically equivalent to another when expressed in general symbols, must continue to be equivalent whatever those symbols denote.
Página 17 - It is certain that from its completeness, uniformity and faultlessness, from its arrangement and progressive character, and from the universal adoption of the completest and best line of argument, Euclid's " Elements " stand preeminently at the head of all human productions.
Página 38 - Of four-sided figures, a square is that which has all its sides equal, and all its angles right angles.
Página 67 - Parallel straight lines are such as are in the same plane, and which being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet.
Página 88 - But when four magnitudes are proportionals, if the first be greater than the third, the second is greater than the fourth ; and if equal, equal; if less, less; (v.
Página 25 - That all our cognition," he says, " begins with experience, there is not any doubt ; for how otherwise should the faculty of cognition be awakened into exercise, if this did not occur through objects which affect our senses...