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Page 23 - If two triangles have the three sides of the one equal to the three sides of the other, each to each, the triangles are congruent.
Page 83 - Two triangles, which have an angle of the one equal to an angle of the other, and the sides containing these angles proportional, are similar.
Page 29 - 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 61 - At a point in a given straight line to make an angle equal to a given angle.
Page 85 - If in a right triangle a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypotenuse : I.
Page 93 - The side of a regular hexagon inscribed in a circle is equal to the radius of the circle.
Page 62 - Through a given point to draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line, Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line : it is required to draw through the point A a straight line parallel to BC.
Page 100 - The circumferences of circles are to each other as their radii, and their areas are to each other as the squares of their radii. Let C denote the circumference of one of ^ the circles, R its radius OA, A its area; and let C...
Page 88 - FIK are similar ; hence the similar polygons may be divided into the same number of triangles similar each to each, and similarly situated.
Page 124 - But the solidity of each triangular prism is equal to the product of its base by its altitude ; and.
Bibliographic information
| Title | New Elementary Geometry: With Practical Applications : a Shorter Course Upon the Basis of the Larger Work Greenleaf's new comprehensive series |
| Author | Benjamin Greenleaf |
| Publisher | Robert S. Davis & Company, 1874 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 176 pages |
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