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Page 86 - ... himself closely to the measuring of them, as well as other figures. Accordingly he determined the relations of spheres, spheroids, and conoids to cylinders and cones ; and the relations of parabolas to rectilineal planes, whose quadratures had long before been determined by Euclid. He has left us also his attempts upon the circle ; he proved that a circle is equal to a right...
Page 86 - In his time the conic sections were admitted into geometry, and he applied himself closely to the measuring of them as well as other figures. Accordingly he determined the relations of spheres, spheroids, and conoids, to cylinders and cones ; and the relations of parabolas to rectilineal planes, whose quadratures had long before been determined by Euclid. He has...
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Page 86 - ... triangle, whose base is equal to the circumference, and its altitude equal to the radius ; and consequently, that its area is found by drawing the radius into half the circumference; and so reduced the quadrature of the circle to the determination of the ratio of the diameter to the circumference ; but which, however, hath not vet been done.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Treatise on Mensuration: Both in Theory and Practice |
| Author | Charles Hutton |
| Illustrated by | Thomas Bewick |
| Publisher | T. Saint, 1770 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 646 pages |
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