Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Books 1-6; Book 11Henry Martyn Taylor |
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ABCD ADDITIONAL PROPOSITION AE is equal angle ABC angle ACB angle BAC angular points bisected bisectors centre of similitude chord circle ABC circumscribed circle coincide CONSTRUCTION Coroll cut the circle describe a circle diagonals diameter equal angles equiangular equilateral triangle Euclid EXERCISES figure fixed point given circle given point given straight line given triangle greater harmonic range hypotenuse inscribed circle intersect isosceles triangle Let ABC locus magnitudes middle points opposite sides pairs parallel parallelepiped parallelogram perpendicular plane angles polygon PROOF Prop quadrilateral radical axis radius rectangle contained regular polygon required to prove respectively rhombus right angles right-angled triangle shew side BC Similarly solid angle sphere square on AC straight line drawn straight line joining tangent tetrahedron theorem three given triangle ABC triangles are equal trihedral angle twice the rectangle vertex vertices Wherefore
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Books 1-6; Book 11 Pitt press mathematical series |
| Editor | Henry Martyn Taylor |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1895 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 1, 2007 |
| Length | 657 pages |
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