Elementary Geometry: With Applications in Mensuration

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A. S. Barnes & Company, 1850 - Geometry - 216 pages
 

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Page 48 - After remarking that the mathematician positively knows that the sum of the three angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles...
Page 10 - If two triangles have two sides, and the included angle of the one equal to two sides and the included angle of the other, each to each, the two triangles are equal in all respects.
Page 58 - BD then A is said to have the same ratio to B, that C has to D ; or, the ratio of A to B is equal to the ratio of C to D.
Page 12 - America, but know that we are alive, that two and two make four, and that the sum of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the third side.
Page 118 - ... cylinder be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section is a figure parallel and similar to the base. The one point a...
Page 112 - If two triangles have the three sides of the one equal to the three sides of the other, each to each, the triangles are congruent.
Page 162 - To find the area of a trapezoid. RULE. Multiply the sum of the parallel sides by the perpendicular distance between them, and then divide the product by two : the quotient will be the area (Bk.
Page 149 - This pulyedrun may be considered as formed of pyramids, each having for its vertex the centre of the sphere, and for its base one of the faces of the polyedron.
Page 119 - If a cone be cut by a plane parallel to the base, the section will be a circle.

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