| Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler - Astronomy - 1826 - 640 pages
...three sides; to find the Surface of the triangle. By the theorem of geometry, so often employed : that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides, and expressing the parts by trigonometry, as in section 56, we find : BD... | |
| Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler - Trigonometry - 1826 - 208 pages
...three sides ; to find the Surface of the triangle. By the theorem of geometry, so often employed : that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides, and expressing the parts by trigonometry, as in section 56, we find : BD... | |
| American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...they are now no longer necessary in calculation. If to this we add the Pythagorean proposition, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides, we have the basis upon which Mr. Hassler has built a complete system of the... | |
| Industrial arts - 1838 - 520 pages
...AE is the other leg, and AB, is the third side, or hypothenuse. Then, as in right angle triangles, the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, in the right angle triangle AEB, B E2+AW = A B2: but as BE, and AE... | |
| 1829 - 538 pages
...find the third, a more direct solution is obtained by the property of a nght angled triangle, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. The substance of what has been previously said upon the resolution... | |
| Charles Davies - Surveying - 1830 - 390 pages
...by either of the three last cases : or, if two of the sides be given, by means of the property, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides ; or the parts may be found by Art. 46. Example 1.— In the right-angled... | |
| Theology - 1830 - 418 pages
...to the gods, was very different from the strong thinking, which led to the geometrical truth that ' the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides ' — and though the ardor of discovery animated the breast of the philosopher... | |
| Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1831 - 632 pages
...equal to the rectangle under their вит and difference, a. E. ». THEOREM xxxiv. IK any right angled triangle, the square of the hypothenuse, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Let ABC be a right-angled triangle, having the right angle с ; then... | |
| Jeremiah Day - Measurement - 1831 - 394 pages
...the third side may be found, without the aid of the trigonometrical tables, by the proposition, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two perpendicular sides. (Euc. 47. I.) If the legs be given, extracting the square root... | |
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