 If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a chord be drawn, the angles which this chord makes with the tangent are equal to the angles in the alternate segments.  The Cambridge Examiner - Page 3151882Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1866 - 862 pages
...Proposition in Euclid, Book II., which gives the relation between the sides of an obtuse angled triangle. 8. If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point...line touching the circle shall be equal to the angles in the alternate segments of the circle. If two circles touch each other, and parallel diameters be... | |
 | James Robert Christie - Mathematics - 1866 - 428 pages
...radius a, about its diameter. i • • J; >. , г.- •• . . - • I. GEOMETRY. > » •' *•"' 1. ' If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point...cutting the circle, the angles which this line makes, && . 2. The sides about the equal angles of equiangular triangles are proportionals; and those which... | |
 | John Playfair - Geometry - 1855 - 350 pages
...other line but FC can be perpendicular to DE ; FC is therefore perpendicular to DE. B PROP. XIX. THEOR. If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a stimght Imt be drawn at right angles to the touching line, the centre of the circle is in that line.... | |
 | Euclid, Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1867 - 426 pages
...the adjacent angles are equal, they are right angles. * [I. Definition 10. PROPOSITION 32. THEOREM. If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a straight line lie drawn cutting the circle, the angles which this line makes with the line touching the circle shall... | |
 | Euclid, Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1867 - 424 pages
...FC is perpendicular to DE. Wherefore, if a straight line &c. PROPOSITION 19. THEOREM. If a ttraight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a straight line be drawn at right angles to the touching line, the centre of the circle shall be in that line. Let the straight... | |
 | Edinburgh univ - 1868 - 336 pages
...square of the other part. 5. The angles in the same segment of a circle are equal to one another. 6. If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point...straight line be drawn cutting the circle, the angles made by this line with the line which touches the circle shall be equal to the angles in the alternate... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1868 - 434 pages
...when the adjacent angles are equal, they are right angles. (I. def. 10.) PROPOSITION XXXII. THEOREM. If a, straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a straight line be drawn meeting the circle ; the angles which this line makes with the line touching the circle shall be equal... | |
 | Edinburgh univ - 1871 - 392 pages
...which you appeal. tained by the whole and that part together with the square of the other part. 4. If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point...straight line be drawn cutting the circle, the angles made by this line with the line which touches the circle, are equal to the angles in the alternate... | |
 | Henry William Watson - Geometry - 1871 - 320 pages
...triangles are equal in all respects, therefore DE is equal to DF, and ADE is equal to ADF. PROPOSITION 2I. If a straight line touch a circle and from the point of contact another straight line be drawn cutting the circle, the angles which the cutting line makes with the... | |
 | Euclides, James Hamblin Smith - Geometry - 1872 - 376 pages
...are normals to the circle at the points where they meet the circumference. PROPOSITION XIX. THEOREM. If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a straight line be drawn at right angles to the touching line, the centre of the circle must be in that line. Let the st. line... | |
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