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... been adopted as offering a good logical training , and also as being peculiarly adapted for teaching large classes , rendering it possible for the teacher to call first upon one then upon another , and so on , to take PREFACE . vii.
... been adopted as offering a good logical training , and also as being peculiarly adapted for teaching large classes , rendering it possible for the teacher to call first upon one then upon another , and so on , to take PREFACE . vii.
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... render them without any material deviation from the construction and idioms of the original Greek . " The Notes are judicious , and , a rare merit in English Notes , not too numerous or too long . A most useful feature in the work is ...
... render them without any material deviation from the construction and idioms of the original Greek . " The Notes are judicious , and , a rare merit in English Notes , not too numerous or too long . A most useful feature in the work is ...
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... rendering of the original , and English readers who are offended by the baldness and frigidity which commonly disfigure translations . The treatises are accompanied by Introductions , Notes , Maps , and a chronological Summary . The ...
... rendering of the original , and English readers who are offended by the baldness and frigidity which commonly disfigure translations . The treatises are accompanied by Introductions , Notes , Maps , and a chronological Summary . The ...
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Francis Cuthbertson. The original has been faithfully rendered , and paraphrase altogether avoided . At the same time , the translators have endeavoured to adapt the book to the use of the English reader . Some amount of rhythm in the ...
Francis Cuthbertson. The original has been faithfully rendered , and paraphrase altogether avoided . At the same time , the translators have endeavoured to adapt the book to the use of the English reader . Some amount of rhythm in the ...
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... render it in that language , the present volume contains only Latin sentences . 5. The author has added to the Rules on Prosody in the last chapter , a few familiar lines from Ovid's Fasti by way of illustration . In a brief ...
... render it in that language , the present volume contains only Latin sentences . 5. The author has added to the Rules on Prosody in the last chapter , a few familiar lines from Ovid's Fasti by way of illustration . In a brief ...
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base bisect Cambridge centre chapter chord circle circumference classes cloth College common complete construction contained Crown 8vo DEFINITION describe diameter difference divided double draw drawn Edition elementary English equal equiangular Examination Examples extremities fall fcap figure former four GEOMETRY given point given straight line Grammar greater Hence Illustrations impossible inscribed introduction Join language Latin less magnitudes Master Mathematical meet method Notes opposite parallel parallelogram pass perimeter perpendicular plane polygon possible present principles PROBLEM produced Professor proportional PROPOSITION prove ratio reading rect rectangle render respectively revised right angles Schools Second Edition segment selected sides similar Similarly square student taken tangent THEOREM third touch TREATISE triangle twice University volume whole
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Page 157 - The first of four magnitudes is said to have the same ratio to the second, which the third has to the fourth, when any equimultiples whatsoever of the first and third being taken, and any equimultiples whatsoever of the second and fourth ; if the multiple of the first be less than that of the second, the multiple of the third is also less than that of the fourth...
Page 15 - ... and the principles on which the observations made with these instruments are treated for deduction of the distances and weights of the bo.iits of the Solar System, and of a few stars, omitting all minutiit of Elementary Class- Books — continued. formulcE, and all troublesome details of calculation.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Euclidian Geometry |
| Author | Francis Cuthbertson |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1874 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 349 pages |
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