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The rectangle , which has its angles right angles , without having its sides equal . The parallelogram , or rhomboid , which has its opposite sides parallel . The rhombus , or lozenge , which has its sides equal , without having its ...
The rectangle , which has its angles right angles , without having its sides equal . The parallelogram , or rhomboid , which has its opposite sides parallel . The rhombus , or lozenge , which has its sides equal , without having its ...
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... each of them will be a right angle ; a conclusion which sanctions the seventeenth Definition , where the four angles of a quadrilateral are asserted to be right angles , in the case of the rectangle and the square . Cor . 2.
... each of them will be a right angle ; a conclusion which sanctions the seventeenth Definition , where the four angles of a quadrilateral are asserted to be right angles , in the case of the rectangle and the square . Cor . 2.
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If the given angle is a right angle , the figure will be a rectangle ; if , in addition to this , the sides are equal , it will be a square . E * E A La Scholium . The same construction serves for making a circumference pass through ...
If the given angle is a right angle , the figure will be a rectangle ; if , in addition to this , the sides are equal , it will be a square . E * E A La Scholium . The same construction serves for making a circumference pass through ...
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Every parallelogram is equivalent to the rectangle which has the same base and the same altitude . PROPOSITION II . THEOREM . Every triangle is half the parallelogram which has the same base and the same altitude .
Every parallelogram is equivalent to the rectangle which has the same base and the same altitude . PROPOSITION II . THEOREM . Every triangle is half the parallelogram which has the same base and the same altitude .
Page 71
The rectangle ABCD will contain seven partial rectangles , while AEFD will contain four : hence the rectangle ABCD is to AEFD as 7 is to 4 , or as AB is to AE . The same reasoning may be applied to any other ratio equally with that of 7 ...
The rectangle ABCD will contain seven partial rectangles , while AEFD will contain four : hence the rectangle ABCD is to AEFD as 7 is to 4 , or as AB is to AE . The same reasoning may be applied to any other ratio equally with that of 7 ...
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| 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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