The Elements of Euclid; viz. the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfth. Also the book of Euclid's Data. By R. Simson. To which is added, A treatise on the construction of the trigonometrical canon [by J. Christison] and A concise account of logarithms [by A. Robertson].1834 |
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... shew what things can be found out or known From those that by hypothesis are already known ; so that in the ... shewn to be given , and so on , til that which was proposed to be found out in the problem demonstrated to be given ...
... shew what things can be found out or known From those that by hypothesis are already known ; so that in the ... shewn to be given , and so on , til that which was proposed to be found out in the problem demonstrated to be given ...
Page vii
... of the problem . WHEREIN this edition differs from the Greek , and the rea- sons of the alterations from it , will be shewn in the Notes at the end of the Data . SHORT ACCOUNTS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF EUCLID , PREFACE TO THE DATA . vii.
... of the problem . WHEREIN this edition differs from the Greek , and the rea- sons of the alterations from it , will be shewn in the Notes at the end of the Data . SHORT ACCOUNTS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF EUCLID , PREFACE TO THE DATA . vii.
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... shewn , that BC is equal to BG ; wherefore AL and BC are each of them equal to BG : and things that are equal to the same thing are equal + to one another ; therefore the straight line † 1 Ax . AL is equal to BC . Wherefore , from the ...
... shewn , that BC is equal to BG ; wherefore AL and BC are each of them equal to BG : and things that are equal to the same thing are equal + to one another ; therefore the straight line † 1 Ax . AL is equal to BC . Wherefore , from the ...
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... shewn that it is not equal to AB : therefore AC is greater than AВ . Wherefore , the greater angle , & c . Q. E. D. PROPOSITION XX . THEOR . Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side . Let ABC be a triangle ...
... shewn that it is not equal to AB : therefore AC is greater than AВ . Wherefore , the greater angle , & c . Q. E. D. PROPOSITION XX . THEOR . Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side . Let ABC be a triangle ...
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... shewn that BA , AC are greater than BE , EC ; much more then are BA , AC greater than BD , DC . Again , because the exterior angle of a triangle * is greater than the interior and opposite angle , the exterior angle BDC of the triangle ...
... shewn that BA , AC are greater than BE , EC ; much more then are BA , AC greater than BD , DC . Again , because the exterior angle of a triangle * is greater than the interior and opposite angle , the exterior angle BDC of the triangle ...
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Page 32 - To a given straight line, to apply a parallelogram which shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle...
Page 138 - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other and the sides about these equal angles proportional, the triangles are similar.
Page 39 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts, is equal to the rectangle contained by the two parts, together with the square of the aforesaid part.
Page 22 - If a straight line fall upon two parallel straight lines, it makes the alternate angles equal to one another...
Page 41 - If a straight line be bisected and produced to any point, the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced and the part of it produced, together •with the square on half the line bisected, is equal to the square on the straight line which is made up of the half and the part produced.
Page 5 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other, each to each, but the...
Page 38 - IF a straight line be divided into any two parts, the rectangles contained by the whole and each of the parts, are together equal to the square of the whole line. Let the straight line AB be divided...
Page 262 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Page 89 - PBOR. —To describe an isosceles triangle, having each of the angles at the base, double of the third angle. Take any straight...
Page 165 - Wherefore, in equal circles &c. QED PROPOSITION B. THEOREM If the vertical angle of a triangle be bisected by a straight line which likewise cuts the base, the rectangle contained by the sides of the triangle is equal to the rectangle contained by the segments of the base, together with the square on the straight line which bisects the angle.