 | Euclid - 1835 - 540 pages
...that which is contained by the " straight line and the circumference." VIII. An angle in a segment is the angle contained by two straight lines drawn from any point in the circumference of the segment, to the extremities of the straight line, which is the base of the segment.... | |
 | John Playfair - Geometry - 1836 - 148 pages
...may be called a segment of a circle, and the straight line may be called the base of the segment. V. The angle contained by two straight lines drawn from any point in the circumference of the segment, to the extremities of the base of the segment, may be called the angle... | |
 | Mathematics - 1836 - 488 pages
...the figure contained by a straight line, and the arch which it cuts off. 6. An angle in a segment is the angle contained by two straight lines drawn from any point in the circumference of the segment, to the extremities of the straight line which is the base of the segment.... | |
 | A. Bell - Conic sections - 1837 - 180 pages
...the point Q, is without the curve (III. 1, Cor. 2). PROPOSITION II. The straight line which bisects the angle, contained by two straight lines, drawn from any point in the hyperbola to the foci, is a tangent to the curve in that point. Let D be any point in the hyperbola... | |
 | William Wallace - Conic sections - 1837 - 248 pages
...be placed one on another, so as entirely to coincide. PROPOSITION V. The straight line which bisects the angle contained by two straight lines drawn from any point in the hyperbola to the foci, is a tangent to the curve at that point. Let D be the point in the curve ; let... | |
 | Euclides - 1838 - 264 pages
...straight line is called the chord of the arc, or the base of the segment. VII. An angle in a segment is the angle contained by two straight lines drawn from any point in the arc of the segment to the extremities of the chord of the arc, or base of the segment. VIII. And an... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Curves, Plane - 1840 - 386 pages
...in the heavens separated from each other by but a small apparent distance : that apparent distance is measured by the angle contained by two straight lines drawn from the eye of the observer to the centres of those objects, without any regard to the length of those... | |
 | Euclides - Geometry - 1841 - 378 pages
...that which is contained by " the straight line and the circumference." VIII. An angle in a segment is the angle contained by two straight lines drawn from any point in the circumference of the segment, to the extremities of the straight line which is the base of the segment.... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1841 - 288 pages
...planes, is the quantity, whether greater or less, by which they depart from each other ; this quantity is measured by the angle contained by two straight lines drawn from the same point perpendicularly to the common intersection, the one being in one of the planes, and... | |
 | Euclides - 1842 - 316 pages
...that which is contained by the " straight line and the circumference." VIII. An angle in a segment is the angle contained by two straight lines drawn from any point in the circumference of the segment to the extremities of the straight line which is the base of the segment.... | |
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angle in a segment' is the angle contained by two straight lines drawn from any point in the circumference of the segment, to the extremities of the straight line which is the base of the segment. 
