Inventional Geometry: A Series of Problems, Intended to Familiarize the Pupil with Geometrical Conceptions, and to Exercise His Inventive Faculty |
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adjacent angles AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY angular points arc is called arithmetic mean arrange the surfaces axis base boundaries breadth card a hollow circumference construct cube curve determine diagonal scale diameter dimensions distance divide a circle divide a line divide an equilateral dodecagon duodecimals ellipse English equal and similar equal sectors equilateral triangle essays find the area four equal geometry Give a plan give a sketch Give an example gles hexahedron icosahedron isosceles triangle length line drawn line of chords line of sines line of tangents means nonagon number of degrees obtuse angle octagon octahedron pentagon piece of card place a circle place a hexagon place a square polygon protractor pupil pyramid quadrant quadrilaterals radii radius rectangle reëntrant angle rhomboid rhombus right angle right-angled triangle secant sides is called solid square inches square yard student takes the name tetrahedron trapezium versed sine Wellesley College write its name zoid
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Page 43 - TRIANGLES upon the same base, and between the same parallels, are equal to one another.
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Page 5 - INTRODUCTION. it is considered that by geometry the architect constructs our buildings, the civil engineer our railways; that by a higher kind of geometry, the surveyor makes a map of a county or of a kingdom; that a geometry still higher is the foundation of the noble science of...