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... regular polygon . Regular polygons may have any number of sides : the equilateral triangle is one of three sides ; the square is one of four . PROPOSITION I. THEOREM . Two regular polygons of the same number of sides are similar figures ...
... regular polygon . Regular polygons may have any number of sides : the equilateral triangle is one of three sides ; the square is one of four . PROPOSITION I. THEOREM . Two regular polygons of the same number of sides are similar figures ...
Page 113
... regular decagon , and will require to be applied ten times to the circumference . For , drawing MB , we have by ... regular decagon . 2d . By joining the alternate corners of the regular decagon , the pentagon ACEGI will be formed , also ...
... regular decagon , and will require to be applied ten times to the circumference . For , drawing MB , we have by ... regular decagon . 2d . By joining the alternate corners of the regular decagon , the pentagon ACEGI will be formed , also ...
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Adrien Marie Legendre Charles Davies. APPENDIX . THE REGULAR POLYEDRONS . A regular polyedron is one whose faces are all equal regular polygons , and whose solid angles are all equal to each other . There are five such polyedrons . First ...
Adrien Marie Legendre Charles Davies. APPENDIX . THE REGULAR POLYEDRONS . A regular polyedron is one whose faces are all equal regular polygons , and whose solid angles are all equal to each other . There are five such polyedrons . First ...
Contents
Ratios and Proportions | 34 |
The Circle and the Measurement of Angles | 41 |
Problems relating to the First and Third Books | 57 |
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adjacent adjacent angles altitude angle ACB angle BAC ar.-comp base multiplied bisect Book VII centre chord circ circumference circumscribed common cone consequently convex surface Cosine Cotang cylinder diagonal diameter dicular distance divided draw drawn equally distant equations equivalent feet figure find the area formed four right angles frustum given angle given line gles greater homologous sides hypothenuse inscribed circle inscribed polygon intersection less Let ABC logarithm M.
M. Sine number of sides opposite parallelogram parallelopipedon pendicular perimeter perpen perpendicular plane MN polyedron polygon ABCDE PROBLEM Prop proportional PROPOSITION pyramid quadrant quadrilateral quantities radii radius ratio rectangle regular polygon right angled triangle S-ABC Scholium secant segment similar slant height solid angle solid described sphere spherical polygon spherical triangle square described straight line Tang tangent THEOREM triangle ABC triangular prism vertex
Bibliographic information
| Title | Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry DAVIES' COURSE OF MATHEMATICS |
| Author | Adrien Marie Legendre |
| Editor | Charles Davies |
| Translated by | David Brewster |
| Publisher | A.S. Barnes and Company, 1839 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 14 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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