| Adrien Marie Legendre - 1825 - 276 σελίδες
...straight line JID < AC + CD, that is, AD < AB (91). 100. Corollary. Hence the greatest straight line that can be inscribed in a circle is equal to its diameter....circumference of a circle in more than two points. Demonstration. If it could meet it in three, these three points being equally distant from the centre,... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - 1825 - 280 σελίδες
...straight line AD < AC + CD, that is, AD < AB (91). 100. Corollary. Hence the greatest straight line that can be inscribed in a circle is equal to its diameter....circumference of a circle in more than two points. Demonstration. If it could meet it in three, these three points being equally distant from the centre,... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - 1825 - 294 σελίδες
...the greatest straight line that can be inscribed in a circle is equal to its diameter. THEOREM. ^y 101. A straight line cannot meet the circumference of a circle in more than two points. Demonstration. If it could meet it in three, these three points being equally distant from the centre,... | |
| George Darley - 1836 - 172 σελίδες
...which does not pass through the centre into equal parts, is perpendicular to it, ibid. ART. 53. A right line cannot meet the circumference of a circle in more than two points, ibid ART. 54. If a right line meet a circle in two points, that part of it between the points lies... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - 1837 - 376 σελίδες
...diameter. , PROPOSITION III. THEOREM. A straight line cannot meet the circumference of a circle in mare than two points. For, if it could meet it in three,...drawn from the same point to the same straight line, winch is impossible (Book I. Prop. XV. C«r. 2.). PROPOSITION IV. THEOREM. In ihe same circle, or in... | |
| Benjamin Peirce - 1837 - 216 σελίδες
...the greatest straight line which can be inscribed in a circle is equal to its diameter. 94. Theorem. A straight line cannot meet the circumference of a circle in more than two points. Demonstration. For, by arts. 38 and 41, only two equal straight lines can be drawn from the same point... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - 1838 - 372 σελίδες
...Hence the greatest line which can be inscribed in a circle is its diameter. PROPOSITION III. THEOREM. A straight line cannot meet the circumference of a...from the centre ; and hence, there would be three equaF straight lines drawn from the same point to the same straight line, which is impossible (Book... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 386 σελίδες
...observations may be applied to every point of the line beyond A and B. (82.) Hence it follows, that a straight line cannot meet the circumference of a circle in more than two points, because every point of the line between these points will be within the circumference, and every other... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - 1841 - 288 σελίδες
...straight line AD< AC + CD; that is, AD < AB (88). 100. Corollary. Hence the greatest straight line that can be inscribed in a circle is equal to its diameter....circumference of a circle in more than two points. Demonstration. If it could meet it in three, these three points being equally distant from the centre,... | |
| Charles Waterhouse - 1842 - 178 σελίδες
...inward, and a saliant angle has its vertex directed outward. 6. Every chord is less than the diameter. 7. A straight line cannot meet the circumference of a circle in more than two points. 8. The circumference of a circle may be made to pass through any three points which are not in a right... | |
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