Lectures on the Principles of Demonstrative MathematicsA. and C. Black, 1843 - 147 páginas |
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... tion of a subsidiary quantity - Residual Analysis - Derived Functions -3 . importance of notation - in arithmetic - in algebra - in science ge- nerally - it indicates processes to the eye - extends them - classifies forms and is a ready ...
... tion of a subsidiary quantity - Residual Analysis - Derived Functions -3 . importance of notation - in arithmetic - in algebra - in science ge- nerally - it indicates processes to the eye - extends them - classifies forms and is a ready ...
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... tion . " This idea separates between the mechanical , ( if we may so call it , ) and the physiological . Without it men would not think of light but in connection with the eye : their attention would be distracted by reflecting on the ...
... tion . " This idea separates between the mechanical , ( if we may so call it , ) and the physiological . Without it men would not think of light but in connection with the eye : their attention would be distracted by reflecting on the ...
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... tion will lead to the mastery of geometry . The light * Whewell , History of the Inductive Sciences , i . 79 , to which I beg to refer the reader . A person who glances casually at Euclid's Optica and Catoptria may think he discovers a ...
... tion will lead to the mastery of geometry . The light * Whewell , History of the Inductive Sciences , i . 79 , to which I beg to refer the reader . A person who glances casually at Euclid's Optica and Catoptria may think he discovers a ...
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... tion . But in geometry the case was far different . Here they aimed at a goal they never reached . Like an ignis fatuus , it led them over an unexplored country , and though they returned without the object of their pursuit , they ...
... tion . But in geometry the case was far different . Here they aimed at a goal they never reached . Like an ignis fatuus , it led them over an unexplored country , and though they returned without the object of their pursuit , they ...
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Philip Kelland. Before I conclude this sketch , let me call your atten- tion to the rapid progress which the sciences made when rightly established . At the time of Hippocrates , ( 450 B. C. ) not only had pure geometry arrived at ...
Philip Kelland. Before I conclude this sketch , let me call your atten- tion to the rapid progress which the sciences made when rightly established . At the time of Hippocrates , ( 450 B. C. ) not only had pure geometry arrived at ...
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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...