A Treatise on Special Or Elementary Geometry

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Sheldon & Company, 1879
 

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Page 217 - A spherical triangle is a portion of the surface of a sphere, bounded by three arcs of great circles.
Page 220 - If two triangles have two sides and the included angle of the one, equal to two sides and the included angle of the other, each to each, the two triangles will be equal.
Page 139 - The area of a trapezoid is equal to the product of its altitude...
Page 231 - If two semicircumferences of great circles intersect on the surface of a hemisphere, the sum of the two opposite triangles thus formed is equivalent to a lune whose angle is that included by the semicircumferences. DEM. — Let the semicircumferences CEB and DEA intersect at E on the surface of the...
Page 207 - A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre.
Page 104 - The measure of an exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of the measures of the two remote interior angles.
Page 136 - Theorem — Two triangles are equal when the three sides of the one are respectively equal to the three sides of the other.
Page 125 - If two triangles have two sides of the one respectively equal to two sides of the other, and the included angles unequal, the triangle which has the greater included angle has the greater third side.
Page 51 - Similar triangles are to each other as the squares of their homologous sides.
Page 2 - LEMMA 4. — A common divisor of two numbers is a divisor of their sum and also of their difference.

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