Lectures on the Principles of Demonstrative MathematicsA. and C. Black, 1843 - 147 sider |
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Side vii
... particular mode of comparison in geometry , 22 LECTURE III . ON THE DEFINITIONS , POSTULATES , AND AXIOMS OF GEOMETRY . Object of definitions different from that of axioms - without reference to the nature of the thing no interpretation ...
... particular mode of comparison in geometry , 22 LECTURE III . ON THE DEFINITIONS , POSTULATES , AND AXIOMS OF GEOMETRY . Object of definitions different from that of axioms - without reference to the nature of the thing no interpretation ...
Side 4
... particular conceptions by the estimation in which they fancy they should have held them . There can be no doubt that this is a most decep- tive process : the mind of an instructed person can hardly feel the possibility of the ...
... particular conceptions by the estimation in which they fancy they should have held them . There can be no doubt that this is a most decep- tive process : the mind of an instructed person can hardly feel the possibility of the ...
Side 14
... particular branches of science rose to perfection , when they had once been commenced on correct principles . And here , in the first place , I must admit that there was a considerable interval consequent on Thales and Pytha- goras ...
... particular branches of science rose to perfection , when they had once been commenced on correct principles . And here , in the first place , I must admit that there was a considerable interval consequent on Thales and Pytha- goras ...
Side 22
... particular mode of comparison in geometry . WHEN first Discipline of the Mind commended itself to men , it assumed the form of Mathematical Demonstra- tion . * Whatever might have been known of the rudi- ments of grammar , of rhetoric ...
... particular mode of comparison in geometry . WHEN first Discipline of the Mind commended itself to men , it assumed the form of Mathematical Demonstra- tion . * Whatever might have been known of the rudi- ments of grammar , of rhetoric ...
Side 36
... particular facts . " § The * Pfeiderer , Thesis Inauguralis , 1782 . + As is even done by Playfair when he requires a property of a straight line for its definition . Lecture viii . § Beddoes , Observations on the Nature of ...
... particular facts . " § The * Pfeiderer , Thesis Inauguralis , 1782 . + As is even done by Playfair when he requires a property of a straight line for its definition . Lecture viii . § Beddoes , Observations on the Nature of ...
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Side 64 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.
Side 38 - A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference.
Side 52 - Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side.
Side 96 - ... of the second and fourth ; if the multiple of the first be less than that of the second, the multiple of the third is also less than that of the fourth: or, if the multiple of the first be equal to that of the second, the multiple of the third is also equal to that of the fourth...
Side 122 - Whatever form is algebraically equivalent to another when expressed in general symbols, must continue to be equivalent whatever those symbols denote.
Side 17 - It is certain that from its completeness, uniformity and faultlessness, from its arrangement and progressive character, and from the universal adoption of the completest and best line of argument, Euclid's " Elements " stand preeminently at the head of all human productions.
Side 38 - Of four-sided figures, a square is that which has all its sides equal, and all its angles right angles.
Side 67 - Parallel straight lines are such as are in the same plane, and which being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet.
Side 88 - But when four magnitudes are proportionals, if the first be greater than the third, the second is greater than the fourth ; and if equal, equal; if less, less; (v.
Side 25 - That all our cognition," he says, " begins with experience, there is not any doubt ; for how otherwise should the faculty of cognition be awakened into exercise, if this did not occur through objects which affect our senses...