Elements of Synthetic Solid Geometry |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
AB² ABCD altitude axis base bisect bisector centroid chord circle circular cone common line complanar congruent conic cos² cube cuboid curve cylinder cylindroid denote diagonals diameter dihedral angles draw ellipse equal face angles form a sheaf four frustum given line given point Hence hyperbola infinity intersection isoclinal line join line-segment locus mean centre median meet middle point mon line non-complanar lines normal number of faces octahedron opposite parabola parallel lines parallelepiped parallelogram pass perpendicular planar line plane figure plane geometry point equidistant polygon polyhedra polyhedron prism prismatoid projection Proof pyramid radius rectangle right angle right section right-bisector plane ruled surfaces segment sheaf of lines sides skew quadrilateral spatial figure sphere spheric geometry spheric line spheric triangle squares surface tangent line Theorem three-faced corner vertex vertices volume
Popular passages
Page v - ... public, partly by receiving from a number of Educationists inquiries as to what work on Solid Geometry I would recommend as a sequel to my Plane Geometry, and partly from the high estimate that I have formed of the value of the study of synthetic solid geometry as a means of mental discipline. ... " In this work the subject is carried somewhat farther than is customary in those works in which the subject of solid geometry is appended to that of plane geometry, but the extensions thus made are...
Page v - I have been induced to present the work to the public, partly by receiving from a number of Educationists inquiries as to what work on Solid Geometry I would recommend as a sequel to my Plane Geometry, and partly from the high estimate that I have formed of the value of the study of synthetic solid geometry as a means of mental discipline. ... " In this work the subject is carried somewhat farther than is customary in those works in which the subject of solid geometry is appended to that of plane...