An introduction to the Elements of Euclid, being a familiar explanation of the first twelve propositions of the first book |
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... often , indeed , a delight to pupils as well as teachers . In the year 1868 a sketch of the mode of teach- ing Euclid , embodied in this treatise , was put forth in an essay describing an attempt to give a liberal X PREFACE TO.
... often , indeed , a delight to pupils as well as teachers . In the year 1868 a sketch of the mode of teach- ing Euclid , embodied in this treatise , was put forth in an essay describing an attempt to give a liberal X PREFACE TO.
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Stephen Thomas Hawtrey. in an essay describing an attempt to give a liberal education to children of the working class . In re- ference to that sketch the following words occur in the Athenæum of Oct. 24 , 1868 : -This mode of teaching ...
Stephen Thomas Hawtrey. in an essay describing an attempt to give a liberal education to children of the working class . In re- ference to that sketch the following words occur in the Athenæum of Oct. 24 , 1868 : -This mode of teaching ...
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... describes in Definition 2. - A line is length without breadth . He adds , what is suggested by the idea of the motion of a point generating a line , Definition 3. - The extremities of a line are points . He might have added , the ...
... describes in Definition 2. - A line is length without breadth . He adds , what is suggested by the idea of the motion of a point generating a line , Definition 3. - The extremities of a line are points . He might have added , the ...
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... He adds : another . Definition 16. - And this point is called the centre of the circle . A primitive mode then of describing a circle would be to fix a pin through your paper into a drawing 10 THE CIRCLE . DEFINITIONS .
... He adds : another . Definition 16. - And this point is called the centre of the circle . A primitive mode then of describing a circle would be to fix a pin through your paper into a drawing 10 THE CIRCLE . DEFINITIONS .
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... describe circles . It will be enough for a beginner if he takes in this meaning of the postulates , though doubtless they bear a deeper meaning than this . It is impossible to draw a line mathematically straight . 14 ON THE POSTULATES .
... describe circles . It will be enough for a beginner if he takes in this meaning of the postulates , though doubtless they bear a deeper meaning than this . It is impossible to draw a line mathematically straight . 14 ON THE POSTULATES .
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A C is equal ABC and DEF adjacent angles angle A B C angle ABC angle ACB angle B A C angle BAC angle contained angles are equal bisected centre construction D E F Definition demonstration describe an equilateral Douglas White draw a straight drawn Eighth Proposition Eleventh Proposition equal sides equal to A C equal to CL equilateral triangle Euclid exercise figure five steps follows fourth proposition given equal given point given straight line greater included angles isosceles triangle join Particular Enunciation pencil Prop PROPOSITION WRITTEN proved equal radii remaining angles required to prove respect right angles second proposition set square sides A B sides are opposite sides BA Sixth Proposition space straight line A B three straight lines triangle ABC triangles are equal vertex Wherefore write
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Σελίδα 54 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Σελίδα 10 - 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.
Σελίδα 10 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another.
Σελίδα 103 - On the same base, and on the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles having their sides which are terminated at one extremity of the base equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated at the other extremity equal to one another.
Σελίδα 83 - If two angles of a triangle be equal to one another, the sides also which subtend, or are opposite to, the equal angles, shall be equal to one another.
Σελίδα 123 - The neglect which he had shown of the elementary truths of geometry he afterwards regarded as a mistake in his mathematical studies ; and on a future occasion he expressed to Dr. Pemberton his regret that " he had applied himself to the works of Descartes, and other algebraic writers, before he had considered the Elements of Euclid with that attention which so excellent a writer deserved."3 The study of Descartes...
Σελίδα 89 - AC. For, if AB be not equal to AC, one of them is greater than the other : let AB be the greater, and from it cut (i.
Σελίδα 98 - Upon the same base, and on the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles that have their sides which are terminated in one extremity of' the base, equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated in the other extremity.
Σελίδα 11 - A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference.
Σελίδα 4 - 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.