A Short History of Greek MathematicsUniversity Press, 1884 - 323 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα v
... common sense which we used , absurdly enough , to regard as peculiarly English . If anyone still cherishes this patriotic delusion , I would advise him to look at the works of Nessel- mann , Bretschneider , Hankel , Hultsch , Heiberg ...
... common sense which we used , absurdly enough , to regard as peculiarly English . If anyone still cherishes this patriotic delusion , I would advise him to look at the works of Nessel- mann , Bretschneider , Hankel , Hultsch , Heiberg ...
Σελίδα vii
... common , is long , is founded for the most part on non - mathematical writers and would consist largely of a history of astronomical observations . In the second place , I have tried to write proper names ( following indeed Smith's ...
... common , is long , is founded for the most part on non - mathematical writers and would consist largely of a history of astronomical observations . In the second place , I have tried to write proper names ( following indeed Smith's ...
Σελίδα ix
... common Semitic transliteration . P. 108 n . 3. In the Journal of Philology , XIII . No. 25. pp . 107-113 , Mr T. L. Heath , after proving by new evidence that the algebraics of Diophantus is not the final sigma , shows that s occurs in ...
... common Semitic transliteration . P. 108 n . 3. In the Journal of Philology , XIII . No. 25. pp . 107-113 , Mr T. L. Heath , after proving by new evidence that the algebraics of Diophantus is not the final sigma , shows that s occurs in ...
Σελίδα 3
... common derivations , taken chiefly from Bopp , are set out in Morris , Hist . Outlines of Eng . Accidence , p . 110 n . The following only need be cited : Three ' what goes beyond ' ( root tri , tar , to go beyond ) . Four ( quattuor ) ...
... common derivations , taken chiefly from Bopp , are set out in Morris , Hist . Outlines of Eng . Accidence , p . 110 n . The following only need be cited : Three ' what goes beyond ' ( root tri , tar , to go beyond ) . Four ( quattuor ) ...
Σελίδα 6
... are obviously taken ( not from the fingers but ) from small symmetrical groups of common objects . Thus , ' two ' is , among the Chinese , ny and ceul , which also mean ' ears : ' in Thibet paksha ' wing : 6 THE DECIMAL SCALE .
... are obviously taken ( not from the fingers but ) from small symmetrical groups of common objects . Thus , ' two ' is , among the Chinese , ny and ceul , which also mean ' ears : ' in Thibet paksha ' wing : 6 THE DECIMAL SCALE .
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Σελίδα 199 - If a straight line meet two straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two right angles...
Σελίδα 292 - THE rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle, is equal to both the rectangles contained by its opposite sides.* Let ABCD be any quadrilateral inscribed in a circle, and join AC, BD ; the.
Σελίδα 292 - The rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle is equal to the sum of the two rectangles contained by its opposite sides.
Σελίδα 298 - He finds as a general law that a ray, passing from a rarer to a denser medium, is refracted towards the perpendicular : if...
Σελίδα 194 - Give him threepence, since he must make gain out of what he learns.
Σελίδα 56 - IJandnotwith any special problem. course, that most astronomers mean by 'the universe' the sphere of which the centre is the centre of the earth and the radius is a line drawn from the centre of the earth to the centre of the sun.
Σελίδα 145 - At a given point in a given straight line, to make a rectilineal angle equal to a given rectilineal angle. Let AB be the given straight line, and A the given point in, it, and DCE the given rectilineal angle ; it is required to make...
Σελίδα 53 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square of the whole line is equal to the squares of the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts.
Σελίδα 176 - To describe an isosceles triangle, having each of the angles at the base double of the third angle.
Σελίδα 133 - Pythagoras changed the study of geometry into the form of a liberal education, for he examined its principles to the bottom and investigated its theorems in an immaterial and intellectual manner.