Euclid's Elements of geometry [book 1-6, 11,12] with explanatory notes; together with a selection of geometrical exercises. To which is prefixed an intr., containing a brief outline of the history of geometry. By R. Potts. [With] Appendix1845 |
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Page vii
... Euclid . The birth - place and even the country of Euclid are unknown , and he has been very frequently con- founded with another philosopher of the same name , who was a native of Megara . He studied at Athens , and became a ...
... Euclid . The birth - place and even the country of Euclid are unknown , and he has been very frequently con- founded with another philosopher of the same name , who was a native of Megara . He studied at Athens , and became a ...
Page viii
... Euclid and afterwards , until the destruction of the great library at Alexandria , and the subjugation of Egypt by the Arabians . Euclid has become celebrated chiefly by his work on the Elements of Geometry , for which his name has ...
... Euclid and afterwards , until the destruction of the great library at Alexandria , and the subjugation of Egypt by the Arabians . Euclid has become celebrated chiefly by his work on the Elements of Geometry , for which his name has ...
Page ix
... Euclid , were acknowledged so far superior in completeness and accuracy to the elementary treatises then existing , that they entirely superseded them , and in course of time all have disappeared . The book of Euclid's Elements is ...
... Euclid , were acknowledged so far superior in completeness and accuracy to the elementary treatises then existing , that they entirely superseded them , and in course of time all have disappeared . The book of Euclid's Elements is ...
Page xii
... Euclid's disciples had founded , and passed there the greater part of his life . He was the author of several works on Geometry , and became so eminent in that science that he was called by his cotemporaries the Great Geometer . His ...
... Euclid's disciples had founded , and passed there the greater part of his life . He was the author of several works on Geometry , and became so eminent in that science that he was called by his cotemporaries the Great Geometer . His ...
Page xiii
... Euclid , informs us that Apollonius attempted to demonstrate the axioms of Euclid , and cites his method of proving the first axiom , that things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another . Proclus examines his so ...
... Euclid , informs us that Apollonius attempted to demonstrate the axioms of Euclid , and cites his method of proving the first axiom , that things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another . Proclus examines his so ...
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AC is equal altitude angle ABC angle BAC angle equal base BC chord circle ABCD circumference cone cylinder describe a circle diagonals diameter divided draw EFGH equal angles equiangular equilateral triangle equimultiples Euclid Euclid's Elements Geometry given angle given circle given line given point given straight line given triangle gnomon greater hypothenuse inscribed interior angles intersection isosceles triangle less Let ABC lines be drawn magnitudes meet the circumference multiple opposite sides parallel parallelogram pentagon perpendicular polygon prism problem Proclus produced Prop proportional proved pyramid Q.E.D. PROPOSITION radius rectangle contained rectilineal figure remaining angle right angles right-angled triangle segment semicircle shew shewn similar triangles solid angle solid parallelopipeds square of AC tangent THEOREM touches the circle trapezium triangle ABC vertex vertical angle wherefore
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Page 56 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts; the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square of the line between the points of section, is equal to the square of half the line.
Page 29 - THE straight lines which join the extremities of two equal and parallel straight lines, towards the same parts, are also themselves equal and parallel.
Page 26 - Wherefore, if a straight line, &c. QED PROPOSITION XXIX. THEOREM. Jf a straight line fall upon two parallel straight lines, it makes the alternate angles equal...
Page 99 - The angle in a semicircle is a right angle ; the angle in a segment greater than a semicircle is less than a right angle ; and the angle in a segment less than a semicircle is greater than a right angle.
Page 15 - The angles which one straight line makes with another upon one side of it, are either two right angles, or are together equal to two right angles. Let the straight line AB make with CD, upon one side of it, the angles CBA, ABD : these shall either be two right angles, or shall together be equal to two right angles. For...
Page 60 - If the vertical angle of a triangle be bisected by a straight line which also cuts the base, the rectangle contained by the sides of the triangle is equal to the rectangle contained by the segments of the base, together with the square on the straight line which bisects the angle.
Page 22 - IF two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page vi - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Page 54 - If there be imo straight lines, one of which is divided into any number of parts; the rectangle contained by the two straight lines, is equal to the rectangles contained by the undivided line, and the several parts of the divided line.
Page 26 - That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines make the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which are the angles less than the two right angles.