| John Aikin - 1799 - 582 pages
...cylinders and cones, and of parabolas to rectilineal planes, whose quadratures were already known. He reduced the quadrature of the circle to the determination of the ratio between the diameter and the circumference ; and, though unable to attain the exact quadrature of the... | |
| Charles James - 1805 - 1236 pages
...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...to the circumference ; but which, however, hath not vet been done. Being disappointed of the exact quadrature of the circle, for want of the rectification... | |
| William Duane - 1810 - 774 pages
...; 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...circumference; but which however hath not yet been done. Being disappointed ei the exact quadrature of the circle, for|| He had another very curious and singuwant... | |
| Peter Nicholson - 1825 - 1046 pages
...~HîA+Î!îîÇ^_.îînelè 3 5 7 31. These two series give the solution of the proposed problem. Let us now apply them to the determination of the ratio of the diameter to the circumference. If we make sin A=JL, we shall have the length of the arc of PLANE TlUeONOMETRT. ТЫ» quantity, multiplied... | |
| 1841 - 516 pages
...it. If not a water mill, it at least is a valuable instrument for the raising of water, and he who reduced the quadrature of the circle to the determination of the ratio between the diameter and circumference at least deserves respectful mention by those who have as yet... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1841 - 510 pages
...it. If not a water mill, it at least is a valuable instrument for the raising of water, and he who reduced the quadrature of the circle to the determination of the ratio between the diameter and circumference at least deserves respectful mention by those who have as yet... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1852 - 430 pages
...; 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...diameter to the circumference ; but which, however, has not yet been found. Throughout the whole of the works of this great man, which are chiefly on mensuration,... | |
| Robert Stuart - 1854 - 1272 pages
...except the lunes of Hippocrates of Chios, he was the first who squared a curvilineal space; he also reduced the quadrature of the circle to the determination of the ratio between the diameter and the circumference ; and though unable to obtain the precise value of it, he... | |
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