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Page 176 - The square described on the hypothenuse of a rightangled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides.
Page 183 - The sides of a triangle are proportional to the sines of the opposite angles.
Page 260 - Three lines are in harmonical proportion, when the first is to the third, as the difference between the first and second, is to the difference between the second and third ; and the second is called a harmonic mean between the first and third. The expression 'harmonical proportion...
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Page 77 - J_ to the given line. .'. the construction gives the perpendicular to a given line at a given point in the line.
Page 122 - And conversely, if the square on one side of a triangle is equal to the Bum of the squares on the other two sides, the angle contained by these two sides is a right angle.
Page 124 - The difference of the squares of two sides of a triangle is equal to the difference of the squares of the segments made by the altitude upon the third side.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Elementary Synthetic Geometry of the Point, Line and Circle in the Plane |
| Author | Nathan Fellowes Dupuis |
| Publisher | Macmillan & Company, 1894 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2005 |
| Length | 294 pages |
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