 | Isaac Watts - 1754 - 772 էջ
...and easy of comprehension. What should we think of a mathematician who should say I will not believe that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides of a right-angled triangle unless I have ocular demonstration of the facts ? And what do we think... | |
 | Charles Bossut - 1803 - 580 էջ
...simple transposition of parts, with which Nassir Eddin composes either the square of the hypothenuse, or the squares of the other two sides of the right angled triangle. He also made an accurate translation of the Conies of Apollonius, and added a commentary, of which... | |
 | 1818 - 594 էջ
...demonstrate geometrical truths, I asked whether they were perfectly convinced that in a rightangled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ? He answered in the affirmative. I then asked how they were certain of this fact ? and, in reply,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 էջ
...,'.I asked the Japanese academician whether he was perfectly convinced that in a right angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ? He answered in the affirmative. I then asked how they were certain of this fact, and in reply he... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 404 էջ
...the schools is of the CANINE SPECIES , and not very intelligible. (3) The discovery of Pythagoras , that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides of a right angled triangle. Whose daring revels shock the sight, When vice and infamy combine ; When drunkenness... | |
 | George Crabb - 1823 - 704 էջ
...right angle, as BC in the annexed diagram. According to the 47th Proposition ' of Euclid's Elements, the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides, as B C1 = BA* -f AC* ie the square BE equal to the squares BGandCH. HYPOTHESIS (Rltet.) vxltte-u, a... | |
 | Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin - 1824 - 372 էջ
...demonstrate geometrical truths, I asked whether they were perfectly convinced that in a right-angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ? He answered in the affirmative. I then asked how they were certain of this fact, and in reply he... | |
 | Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin - 1824 - 372 էջ
...demonstrate geometrical truths, I asked whether they were perfectly convinced that in a right-angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ? He answered in the affirmative. I then asked how they were certain of this fact, and in reply he... | |
 | Voltaire - 1824 - 422 էջ
...corresponding sides, the areas of the circles will also be proportional to the squares of their radii. Thus, as the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the two sides, a circle, of which this hypothenuse is the radius, will be equal to two circles having for... | |
 | Voltaire - 1824 - 432 էջ
...the ureas of the circles will also be proportional .to the squares of their radii, . . . . Thus, as the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the two sides, a circle, of which this hypothenuse is, the radius, will be equal to two circles having... | |
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... that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides. 
