Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid: With a Supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle and the Geometry of Solids ...J. Eastburn & Company, 1819 - 317 pages |
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... exterior angle is greater than cither of the interior , and opposite angles . Let ABC be a triangle , and let its side BC be produced to D , the exterior angle ACD is greater than either of the interior opposite angles CBA , BАС . A F ...
... exterior angle is greater than cither of the interior , and opposite angles . Let ABC be a triangle , and let its side BC be produced to D , the exterior angle ACD is greater than either of the interior opposite angles CBA , BАС . A F ...
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... exterior angle of the triangle ABC , ACD is greater ( 16. 1. ) than the interior and opposite angle ABC ; to each of these add the angle ACB ; therefore the angles ACD , ACB are greater than the angles ABC , ACB ; but ACD , ACB are to ...
... exterior angle of the triangle ABC , ACD is greater ( 16. 1. ) than the interior and opposite angle ABC ; to each of these add the angle ACB ; therefore the angles ACD , ACB are greater than the angles ABC , ACB ; but ACD , ACB are to ...
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... angle . Let the two straight lines BD , CD be drawn from B , C , the ends of the side BC of the triangle ABC , to ... exterior angle of a triangle ( 16. 1. ) is greater than the interior and opposite angle , the exterior angle BDC ...
... angle . Let the two straight lines BD , CD be drawn from B , C , the ends of the side BC of the triangle ABC , to ... exterior angle of a triangle ( 16. 1. ) is greater than the interior and opposite angle , the exterior angle BDC ...
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... angle GCB is equal to the angle DFE ; but DFE is , by the hypothesis , equal to the angle BCA ; wherefore also the ... exterior angle BHA of the trian- gle AHC is equal to its interior and opposite angle BCA : which is im- possible ...
... angle GCB is equal to the angle DFE ; but DFE is , by the hypothesis , equal to the angle BCA ; wherefore also the ... exterior angle BHA of the trian- gle AHC is equal to its interior and opposite angle BCA : which is im- possible ...
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... exterior angle AEF is greater ( 16. 1. ) than the interior and oppo- site angle EFG ; but it is also equal to it , which is impossible ; therefore , AB A E and CD being produced , do not meet towards B , D. In like manner it may be ...
... exterior angle AEF is greater ( 16. 1. ) than the interior and oppo- site angle EFG ; but it is also equal to it , which is impossible ; therefore , AB A E and CD being produced , do not meet towards B , D. In like manner it may be ...
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Page 153 - If from the vertical angle of a triangle a straight line be drawn perpendicular to the base, the rectangle contained by the sides of the triangle is equal to the rectangle contained by the perpendicular and the diameter of the circle...
Page 19 - 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.
Page 33 - THE greater angle of every triangle is subtended by the greater side, or has the greater side opposite to it.
Page 292 - If a straight line meet two straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two right angles...
Page 308 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Page 36 - IF two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other, each to each, but the angle contained by the two sides of one of them greater than the angle contained by the two sides equal to them, of the other ; the base of that which has the greater angle shall be greater than the base of the other.
Page 18 - 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.
Page 78 - To draw a straight line from a given point, either without or in the circumference, which shall touch a given circle. First, let A be a given point without the given circle BCD : it is required to draw a straight line from A which shall touch the circle.
Page 77 - THE straight line drawn at right angles to the diameter of a circle, from the extremity of it, falls without the circle...
Page 39 - If a straight line fall upon two parallel straight lines, it makes the alternate angles equal to one another ; and the exterior angle equal to the interior and opposite upon the same side ; and likewise the too interior angles upon the same side together equal to two right angles.