 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1762 - 466 pages
...given ftraight line ; it is required to cut off any part from it. From the point A draw a ftraight line AC making any angle with AB ; and in AC take any point D, and take AC which is the fam« multiple of AD that AB is of the part which is to be cut off from it ; join BC,... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1775 - 520 pages
...given ftraight line ; it is required to cut off any part from it. Fiom the point A draw a ftraight line AC making any angle with AB ; and in AC take any point D, and take AC the fame multiple of AD that AB is of the part which is to be cut off from it ; join BC, and draw DE parallel... | |
 | Euclid - 1781 - 550 pages
...given ftraight line ; it is required to cut off any part from it. • From the point A draw a ftraight line AC making any angle with AB ; and in AC take any point D, and take AC the fame multiple of AD, that AB is of the part which is to be cut off from it; join BC, and draw DE parallel... | |
 | John Playfair - Trigonometry - 1795 - 444 pages
...to cut off from it a part of which AB fliall be a given multiple. From the point A draw a flraight line AC making any angle with AB ; and in AC take any point D, and take AC M 4 the Book VI. the fame multiple of AD, that AB i? - f - of the part which is to be cut off from... | |
 | Alexander Ingram - Trigonometry - 1799 - 351 pages
...the given ftraight line; it is required to cut off any part from it. From the point A draw a ftraight line AC making any angle with AB ; and in AC take any point D, and take AC the fame multiple of AD, that AB is of the part which is to be cut off from it ; join BC, and draw DE parallel... | |
 | John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1804 - 470 pages
...take AC M 4 fnch Book VI «t. '. b i«. 5. fuch that it fhall contain AD, as oft as AB js to contain the part, which is to be cut off from it ; join BC,...it : then AE is the part required to be cut* off. Becaufe ED is parallel to one of the fides of the triangle ABC, viz. to BC, CD : DA : : BE : EA »... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1804
...given ftraight line ; it is required to cut off any part from it. From the point A draw a ftraight line AC making any angle with AB; and in AC take any point D, and take AC which is the ftme multiple of AD that AB is of the part which is to be cut off from it; join BC, and... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1806 - 518 pages
...part See N. required. Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to cut off any part from it. From the point A draw a straight line AC making any...of the part which is to be cut off from it ; join DC, and draw DE parallel to it : then AE is the part required to be cut off. Because ED is parallel... | |
 | John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1806 - 320 pages
...AB a part which shall be contained in it a given number of times. Book VI. a 2. 6. b 18. 5. cC. 5. From the point A draw a straight line AC, making any angle with AB ; in AC take any point D, and take AC sucli that it shall contain AD as" often as AB is to contain... | |
 | Euclid - Geometry - 1810 - 518 pages
...re- See M. quired. Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to cut off anv part from it. From the point A draw a straight line AC making any...to it : then AE is the part required to be cut off. Because ED is parallel to one of the sides of the triangle ABC, viz. to BC, as CD is to / \ DA, so... | |
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From the point A draw a straight line AC, making any angle with AB ; and in AC take any point D, and take AC the same multiple of AD, that AB is of the part which is to be cut off from it : join BC, and draw DE parallel to it : then AE is the part required... 
