 | Euclides - 1846 - 272 pages
...... 163 Sixth Book ... ... ... ... 195 Trigonometry ... ... .. ... 229 FOURTH BOOK. DEFINITIONS. 1. A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when each of its angles touches the circumference of the circle. 2. A rectilineal figure is said to be circumscribed... | |
 | Euclides - 1848 - 52 pages
...pass through the angular points of the figure about which it is described, each through each. III. A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when all the angular points of the inscribed figure are upon the circumference of the circle. IV. A rectilineal... | |
 | Johann Georg Heck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 712 pages
...immediately, or when produced cuts the circumference in two points, is- called a secant, ab (fig. 46). A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle when all its sides are chords (fig. 45) ; it is said to be circumscribed about a circle when all its sides are tangents... | |
 | 1851 - 716 pages
...immediately or when produced cuts the circumference in two points, is called a secant, ab (fig. 46). A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle when all its sides are chords (fig. 45) ; it is said to be circumscribed about a circle when all its sides are tangents... | |
 | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 400 pages
...figure pass through the angular points of the figure about which it is described, each through each. 3. A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle when all the angles of the inscribed figure are upon the circumference of the circle. 4. A rectilineal figure... | |
 | Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 176 pages
...angular points of the figure about which it is described, each through each. Definiiions I. and II. III. A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when all the angles of the inscribed figure are upon the circumference of the circle. Definition III. IV. A... | |
 | Euclides - 1853 - 146 pages
...figure pass through the angular points of the figure about which it is described, each through each. in. A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when all the angular points of the inscribed figure are upon the circumference of the circle. A rectilineal... | |
 | Thomas Lund - Geometry - 1854 - 520 pages
...larger triangle is not 'circumscribed' about the lesser in the Island 2nd, but only in the 3rd. DBF. 3. A Rectilineal Figure is said to be ' inscribed in a circle', when all the angular points of the inscribed figure are upon the circumference of the circle. DBF. 4. A Rectilineal... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1854 - 534 pages
...another, when all the sales of the former pass through the vertices of the latter, each through each. A A rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when all the ยก vertices of the former are upon the circumference of the circle. \ IV. A rectilineal figure... | |
 | Euclides - 1855 - 230 pages
...figure pass through the angular points of the figure about which it is circumscribed, each through each. 3. A Rectilineal figure is said to be inscribed in a circle, when all the angles of the inscribed figure are upon the circumference of the circle. 4. A Rectilineal figure... | |
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A rectilineal figure is said to be described about a circle, when each side of the circumscribed figure touches the circumference of the circle. 5. In like manner, a circle is said to be inscribed... 
