| William Dexter Wilson - Logic - 1856 - 456 pages
...one of the Methods of Proof. Thus, I may learn at first from actual measurement, that the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two other sides, and then prove it as a necessary and invariable property of all... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1857 - 892 pages
...mathematical and physical science. That " a whole is greater than any of its parts,"—that " the square described on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on its remaining sides," are facts, the one deduced from observation or simple... | |
| James Stewart Eaton - Arithmetic - 1857 - 376 pages
...are to each other as the squares of their radii, diameters or circumferences. FIG. 12. 6. The square described on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. This will be seen by counting the small squares in the... | |
| Asa Mahan - Philosophy - 1857 - 400 pages
...propositions as the following? "Things equal to the same things are equal to one another," — " The square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides," — "6+4=10," — "X=Z,"&c.? The whole science of logic has been constructed... | |
| William Thomson - Logic - 1857 - 416 pages
...practical examples, before the science was established by abstract reasoning. Thus, that the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, was an experimental discovery, or why did the discoverer sacrifice... | |
| John Daniel Runkle - Mathematics - 1859 - 460 pages
...infinitely great DEMONSTRATION OF THE PYTHAGOREAN PROPOSITION. ВТ .1ЛМ1.Ч EDWAKD OLIVES. The square described on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other ¿wo sides. Drop a perpendicular from the right angle to the hypothenuse,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1859 - 508 pages
...which implies ease and instantaneousness of operation. Take the geometrical theorem, that the square described on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the two other sides ; it is proved by a series of propositions, the connection of each... | |
| William Thomson - Logic - 1859 - 370 pages
...practical examples, before the science was established by abstract reasoning. Thus, that the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, was an experimental discovery, or why did the discoverer sacrifice... | |
| James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1860 - 440 pages
...17*. 794i. 15. 16. 43681. 47089. 22. 23. 3.172181. 10342656. 29. 30. 207*?. 34967 A371 578. The square described on the hypothenu.se of a rightangled triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. (Thomson's Legendre, B. IV. 11, Euc. I. 47.) The Irii/h... | |
| Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1860 - 720 pages
...reputed to have been the author of the multiplication table, and to have discovered that the square on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. Numbers led him over into astro* Butler. nomy. And here, it would... | |
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