Constructive Text-book of Practical Mathematics, Volume 2

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Page 172 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Page 104 - The sum of the squares of the sides of any quadrilateral is equal to the sum of the squares of the diagonals plus four times the square of the line joining the middle points of the diagonals.
Page 221 - The altitude of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the base.
Page 89 - ... they have an angle of one equal to an angle of the other and the including sides are proportional; (c) their sides are respectively proportional.
Page 196 - DE'F, and consequently symmetrical with DEF. PROPOSITION XIII.—THEOREM. 55. Two triangles on the same sphere are either equal or symmetrical, when a side and two adjacent angles of one are equal respectively to a side and two adjacent angles of the other.
Page 164 - If two planes are perpendicular to each other, a line drawn in one of them perpendicular to their intersection is perpendicular to the other.
Page 223 - The axis of a circle of a sphere is the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the plane of the circle. The ends of the axis are called the poles of the circle.
Page 237 - A right prism is a prism whose lateral edges are perpendicular to its bases.
Page 109 - Pythagorean theorem, which states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
Page 192 - A point on the surface of a sphere, which is at the distance of a quadrant from each of two other points, not the extremities of a diameter, is a pole of the great circle passing through these points.

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