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Page 197
... Euclid , Apollonius , and Pappus , among the ancients ; as well as to Ghetaldus , Alexander Anderson , Halley , Dr. Simson , and Professor Playfair , among the moderns . The Elements of plane Trigonometry are included in 21 propositions ...
... Euclid , Apollonius , and Pappus , among the ancients ; as well as to Ghetaldus , Alexander Anderson , Halley , Dr. Simson , and Professor Playfair , among the moderns . The Elements of plane Trigonometry are included in 21 propositions ...
Page 199
... Euclid's definition of an angle is obscure and altogether defective ; and that it is curious to observe the shifts to which the author of the Elements is hence obli- ged to have recourse . ' This is a discovery which neither Simson ...
... Euclid's definition of an angle is obscure and altogether defective ; and that it is curious to observe the shifts to which the author of the Elements is hence obli- ged to have recourse . ' This is a discovery which neither Simson ...
Page 200
... Euclid's 1st book . Happy for those , whose comprehension of Euclid's theorem does not de- pend upon their understanding Mr. Leslie's phraseology ! " Def . 12. Straight lines which have no inclination are pa- rallel . ' This is ...
... Euclid's 1st book . Happy for those , whose comprehension of Euclid's theorem does not de- pend upon their understanding Mr. Leslie's phraseology ! " Def . 12. Straight lines which have no inclination are pa- rallel . ' This is ...
Page 201
... Euclid would have added " each to each : " but this old fashioned geome- ter , as Mr. L. remarks , had recourse to ' sad shifts ' for the sake of perspicuity and accuracy . Our Professor has no such scruples but , very adroitly failing ...
... Euclid would have added " each to each : " but this old fashioned geome- ter , as Mr. L. remarks , had recourse to ' sad shifts ' for the sake of perspicuity and accuracy . Our Professor has no such scruples but , very adroitly failing ...
Page 203
... Euclid's definition of an angle , which notwithstanding , at p . 455 , he calls obscure and defective . ' Prop . 26 we have noticed above . Prop . 28. The perpendicular at the extremity of a diame- ter is a tangent to the circle . ' In ...
... Euclid's definition of an angle , which notwithstanding , at p . 455 , he calls obscure and defective . ' Prop . 26 we have noticed above . Prop . 28. The perpendicular at the extremity of a diame- ter is a tangent to the circle . ' In ...
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