The Quadrature of the Circle: The Square Root of Two, and the Right-angled TriangleWilstach, Baldwin & Company, printers, 1873 - 164 σελίδες |
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... means of the most powerful microscope which it is likely ever will be made , yet its existence can be as certainly determined , mathematically , as if it were drawn mechanically upon wood or paper , and not only its figure , but its ...
... means of the most powerful microscope which it is likely ever will be made , yet its existence can be as certainly determined , mathematically , as if it were drawn mechanically upon wood or paper , and not only its figure , but its ...
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... means of the curve , which he calls quadrans or the quadratrix , the discovery of which , however , is usually ascribed to Dinostratos ; and the second , by means of a certain line which he called the sister of the tortuous line , or ...
... means of the curve , which he calls quadrans or the quadratrix , the discovery of which , however , is usually ascribed to Dinostratos ; and the second , by means of a certain line which he called the sister of the tortuous line , or ...
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... means of detecting the mistake . Barben du Bourg , who later devoted himself to medicine , employed it by showing that the re- sults of Basselin fell outside the known limits ; for the rest , he was such a novice in geometry that he did ...
... means of detecting the mistake . Barben du Bourg , who later devoted himself to medicine , employed it by showing that the re- sults of Basselin fell outside the known limits ; for the rest , he was such a novice in geometry that he did ...
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... means of obtaining the judgment of the academy which considerately refused to speak , but which was finally compelled to give its opinion . We shall pass more rapidly over the names of other discoverers of the quadrature of the circle ...
... means of obtaining the judgment of the academy which considerately refused to speak , but which was finally compelled to give its opinion . We shall pass more rapidly over the names of other discoverers of the quadrature of the circle ...
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... means of short- ening this calculation by some very ingenious theorems , and if he did not excel Van Ceulen he verified his result , which he put beyond at- tack . His discoveries on this subject are found in the book entitled ...
... means of short- ening this calculation by some very ingenious theorems , and if he did not excel Van Ceulen he verified his result , which he put beyond at- tack . His discoveries on this subject are found in the book entitled ...
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Σελίδα 65 - 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.
Σελίδα 39 - It furnishes art with all her materials, and without it judgment itself can at best but " steal wisely : " for art is only like a prudent steward that lives on managing the riches of nature.' Whatever praises may be given to works of judgment, there is not even a single beauty in them to which the invention...
Σελίδα 71 - AXIOMS. 1. Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another. 2. If equals be added to equals, the wholes are equal. 3. If equals be taken from equals, the remainders are equal.
Σελίδα 39 - Nor is it a wonder if he has ever been acknowledged the greatest of poets, who most excelled in that which is the very foundation of poetry. It is the invention that in different degrees...
Σελίδα 78 - COR. From this it is manifest, that the perpendicular drawn from the right angle of a right-angled triangle to the base, is a mean proportional between the segments of the base; and also that each of the sides is a mean proportional between the base, and...
Σελίδα 71 - If a straight line meets 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 39 - And perhaps the reason why common critics are inclined to prefer a judicious and methodical genius to a great and fruitful one, is, because they find it easier for themselves to pursue their observations through an uniform and bounded walk of art, than to comprehend the vast and various extent of nature.
Σελίδα 31 - IN a right-angled triangle, if a perpendicular be drawn from the right angle to the base, the triangles on each side of it are similar to the whole triangle, and to one another.
Σελίδα 74 - In any right-angled triangle, the square which is described on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the sides which contain the right angle.
Σελίδα 69 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, • called degrees, each degree into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds, etc.