 | Euclid - 1826 - 234 pages
...THEOREM. If any point be taken without a circle, and from it two right lines be let fall on the circle, one of which cuts the circle, and the other touches it, the rectangle which is contained by the whole cutting line, and that part between the point taken without the circle,... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 546 pages
...straight lines, &c. QED PROP.. XXXVI. THEOR. If from any point without a circle two straight lines be drawn, one of which cuts the circle, and the other...; the rectangle contained by the whole line which a1ts the circle, and the part of it without the circle, shall be equal to the square of the line which... | |
 | Euclid, Robert Simson - Geometry - 1829 - 548 pages
...straight lines, one of which cuts the circle, and the other meets it; if the rectangle contained hy the whole line, which cuts the circle, and the part of it without the circle be equal to the square of the line which meets it, the line which meets it shall touch the circle.*... | |
 | John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1833 - 346 pages
...two straight lines, &c. QED PROP. XXXVI. THEOR. If from any point without a circle two straight lines be drawn, one of which cuts the circle, and the other touches it ; the rectangle contain- ' ed by the whole line which cuts the circle, and the part of it without the circle, is equal... | |
 | Euclid - 1835 - 540 pages
...straight lines," &c. QED PROP. XXXVI. THEOR. If from any point without a circle two straight lines be drawn, one of which cuts the circle, and the other...the rectangle contained by the whole line which cuts tJie circle, and the part of it without the circle, is equal to the square of the line which touches... | |
 | Robert Mudie - Mathematics - 1836 - 524 pages
...now briefly consider. 3. If from any point, without the circumference of a circle, two straight lines be drawn, one of which cuts the circle and the other...rectangle contained by the whole line which cuts, and the part of that line without the circle, is equal to the square of the line which touches. The... | |
 | Robert Mudie - Mathematics - 1836 - 542 pages
...now briefly consider. 3. If from any point, without the circumference of a circle, two straight lines be drawn, one of which cuts the circle and the other...rectangle contained by the whole line which cuts, and the part of that line without the circle, is equal to the square of the line which touches. The... | |
 | Mathematics - 1836 - 488 pages
...circle there be drawn two straight lines, one of which cuts the circle, and the other meets it ; if the rectangle contained by the whole line, which cuts the circle, and the part of it without a circle, be equal to the line which meets it, the line which meets shall touch the circle. BOOK iv.... | |
 | Euclid, James Thomson - Geometry - 1837 - 410 pages
...two chords of a circle, &c. PROP. XXXVI. THEOR. IF from any point without a circle two straight lines be drawn, one of which cuts the circle, and the other...the circle, and the part of it without the circle, is equal to the square of the line which touches it. Let D be any point without the circle ABC, and... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - Astronomy - 1837 - 302 pages
...less is the polar than the equatorial di ameter ? What is the curvature of the earth for one mile ? rectangle* contained by the whole line which cuts the circle, and the part of it without the circle is equal to the square of the line which touches it, ie the distance cn multipled into nb, equals the... | |
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If from any point without a circle two straight lines be drawn, one of which cuts the circle, and the other touches it; the rectangle contained by the whole line which cuts the circle, and the part of it without the circle, shall be equal to the square... 
