An Easy Introduction to the Mathematics: In which the Theory and Practice are Laid Down and Familiarly Explained ... A Complete and Easy System of Elementary Instruction in the Leading Branches of the Mathematics; ... Adapted to the Use of Schools, Junior Students at the Universities, and Private Learners, Especially Those who Study Without a Tutor. In Two Volumes, Volumen2Bartlett and Newman ; [etc., etc..], 1814 |
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Página 66
... Euclid 17 , 5 . 68. In like manner , the first is to its excess above the second , as the third to its excess above the fourth . a - b C- -d b d Because = d by the preceding , and since - = α C d a- -b C d therefore - = = or a - ba ...
... Euclid 17 , 5 . 68. In like manner , the first is to its excess above the second , as the third to its excess above the fourth . a - b C- -d b d Because = d by the preceding , and since - = α C d a- -b C d therefore - = = or a - ba ...
Página 69
... Euclid 22 , 5 . 82. If there be any number of quantities , and as many others , which taken two and two in cross order are proportionals , namely , the first to the second of the first rank , as the last but one to the last of the other ...
... Euclid 22 , 5 . 82. If there be any number of quantities , and as many others , which taken two and two in cross order are proportionals , namely , the first to the second of the first rank , as the last but one to the last of the other ...
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... Euclid's Elements are ascribed to him ; from the latter of which he was led to determine , that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable to its side : every person moderately acquainted with Geo- metry will acknowledge , that the ...
... Euclid's Elements are ascribed to him ; from the latter of which he was led to determine , that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable to its side : every person moderately acquainted with Geo- metry will acknowledge , that the ...
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... Euclid's first book of Elements . Zenodorus proved , that figures of equal areas are not necessarily contained by equal boundaries , as some had asserted : one only of his treatises has escaped the ravages of time ; it has been ...
... Euclid's first book of Elements . Zenodorus proved , that figures of equal areas are not necessarily contained by equal boundaries , as some had asserted : one only of his treatises has escaped the ravages of time ; it has been ...
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... Euclid 33. 11. but it was soon discovered that the difficulty , instead of being removed , was only a lit- tle disguised ; for the two mean proportionals themselves could not be found by any pure geometrical process , and the problem ...
... Euclid 33. 11. but it was soon discovered that the difficulty , instead of being removed , was only a lit- tle disguised ; for the two mean proportionals themselves could not be found by any pure geometrical process , and the problem ...
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Página 320 - If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a chord be drawn, the angles which this chord makes with the tangent are equal to the angles in the alternate segments.
Página 405 - In any plane triangle, the sum of any two sides is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles is to the tangent of half their difference.
Página 287 - TO a given straight line to apply a parallelogram, which shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.
Página 66 - If four magnitudes are proportional, the sum of the first and second is to their difference as the sum of the third and fourth is to their difference.
Página 272 - But things which are equal to the same are equal to one another (Ax.
Página 267 - Parallel straight lines are such as are in the same plane, and which being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet.
Página 263 - A plane rectilineal angle is the inclination of two straight lines to one another, which meet together, but are not in the same straight line.
Página 281 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and also one side of the one equal to the corresponding side of the other, the triangles are congruent.
Página 294 - If a straight line be bisected, and produced to any point ; the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced, and the part of it produced, together with the square of half the line bisected, is equal to the square of the straight line which is made up of the half and the part produced.
Página 190 - Take the first term from the second, the second from the third, the third from the fourth, &c. and the remainders will form a new series, called the first order of