Schultze and Sevenoak's Plane and Solid Geometry

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Macmillan, 1913 - Geometry - 457 pages
 

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Page 177 - If two polygons are composed of the same number of triangles, similar each to each and similarly placed, the polygons are similar.
Page 222 - Two triangles having an angle of the one equal to an angle of the other are to each other as the products of the sides including the equal angles.
Page 208 - The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude.
Page 160 - A line parallel to one side of a triangle divides the other two sides proportionally.
Page 82 - The straight line joining the middle points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side, and equal to half of it.
Page 70 - If two triangles have two sides of one equal respectively to two sides of the other, but the included angle of the first triangle greater than the included angle of the second, then the third side of the first is greater than the third side of the second.
Page 192 - 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 diminished by twice the product of one of those sides and the projection of the other upon that side.
Page 409 - A spherical polygon is a portion of the surface of a sphere bounded by three or more arcs of great circles. The bounding arcs are the sides of the polygon ; the...
Page 193 - In any obtuse triangle, the square of the side opposite the obtuse angle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, increased by twice the product of one of these sides and the projection of the other side upon it.

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