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CHRONOLOGICAL & GENEALOGICAL

TABLES,

Ellustrative of English History.

BY JOHN CHARLES CURTIS, B.A.

CONTENTS.

Important battles fought during the Roman and
Saxon Periods; Wars with Scotland in the reigns of
Edward I., II., and III.; Wars with France in the
reigns of Edward III., Henry V., and VI.; Wars of the
Roses; Civil Wars; Battles fought by the Marquess of
Montrose in behalf of Charles I.; Wars in the reign of
William III.; War of the Succession in Spain; the
American War; War with France, Spain, and Holland
(during the American War); War with France and her
Allies (not including the Peninsular War); the Penin-
sular War; Battles and Sieges in India; Battles and
Sieges not included in the preceding Tables; Tables of
Treaties and their Terms; Genealogical Tables of the
Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Danish, English, Scottish, and
French Kings; of the Dukes of Normandy; of the
principal Members of the Beaufort, the Neville, and the
Howard Families; of the claimants for the French Crown
in the time of Edward III., and for the Spanish Crown
of the
at the close of the Seventeenth Century;
Descendants of Louis Philippe; and of the principal
Members of the Napoleon Family.

In the Battles, the names of the Commanders on
both sides, and the immediate results are given, and in
most of the Tables the origin of the War is concisely
stated.

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FROM THE TEXT OF ROBERT SIMSON, M.D.,

Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow.

EDITED BY

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EUCLID'S

ELEMENTS OF PLANE GEOMETRY.

BOOK I.

DEFINITIONS.
I.

A POINT is that which has no parts, or which has no magnitude.

A line is length without breadth.

II.

III.

The extremities of a line are points.

IV.

A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points.

V.

A superficies is that which has only length and breadth.

VI.

The extremities of a superficies are lines.

VII.

A plane superficies is that in which any two points being taken, the straight line between them lies wholly in that superficies.

VIII.

A plane angle is the inclination of two lines to one another in a plane, which meet together, but are not in the same direction.

IX.

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. N.B.-When several angles are at one point B, any one of them is expressed by three letters, of which the letter that is at the vertex of the angle, that is, at the point in which

the straight lines that contain the angle meet one another, is put between the other two letters, and one of these two is somewhere upon one of those straight lines, and the other upon the other straight line: thus the angle which is contained by the

B

A

straight lines, AB, CB, is named the angle ABC, or CBA; that which is contained by AB, DB, is named the angle A BD, or D BA; and that

which is contained by D B, CB, is called the angle D B C, or C BD; but, if there be only one angle at a point, it may be expressed by a letter placed at that point; as the angle at E.

X.

When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of these angles is called a right angle; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.

XI.

An obtuse angle is that which is greater than a right angle.

XII.

An acute angle is that which is less than a right angle.
Both obtuse angles and acute angles are termed oblique.

XIII.

A term or boundary is the extremity of any thing.

XIV.

A figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries.

XV.

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.

XVI.

And this point is called the centre of the circle.

XVII.

A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference.

XVIII.

A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by the diameter.

XIX.

A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the part of the circumference it cuts off.

XX.

Rectilineal figures are those which are contained by straight lines.

XXI.

Trilateral figures, or triangles, by three straight lines.

XXII.

Quadrilateral by four straight lines.

XXIII.

Multilateral figures, or polygons, by more than four straight lines.

XXIV.

Of three-sided figures, an equilateral triangle is that

which has three equal sides.