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Page 38 - PERIPHERY of a circle is its entire bounding line ; or it is a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre.
Page 78 - In any triangle, the square of the side opposite an acute angle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, minus twice the product of one of these sides and the projection of the other side upon it.
Page 81 - In any triangle, the product of two sides is equal to the product of the segments of the third side formed by the bisector of the opposite angle plus the square of the bisector.
Page 3 - A plane rectilineal angle is the inclination of two straight lines to one another, which meet together, but are not in the same straight line.
Page 80 - In any quadrilateral, the sum of the squares of the four sides 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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Manual of Plane Geometry: On the Heuristic Plan, with Numerous Extra Exercises, Both Theorems and Problems, for Advance Work |
| Author | George Irving Hopkins |
| Publisher | D.C. Heath & Company, 1891 |
| Length | 179 pages |
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