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  "The Foundation or Elements of Geometry," a subject in which no more general treatise existed before among the Greeks; nay, there was no one even of later date who did not walk in his footsteps and frankly profess his doctrine


# bib

id: 26752
title: The Way To Geometry
author: Ramus, Petrus
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  THE WAY GEOMETRY. Being necessary and usefull, Astronomers. Engineres. Geographers. Architecks. Land-meaters. Carpenters. Sea-men. Paynters. Carvers, &c. Written by Peter Ramus Translated by William Bedwell Note from submitter: Because of the heavy dependence of this book on its diagrams and illustrations, a text version was not prepared.


id: 36547
author: Phin, John
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  unfortunate fact that the circle-squarer and the perpetual-motion-seeker machines and contrivances for obtaining perpetual motion, and of explained as the drawing of a square inside a circle and at other times quadrature, by which a square, equal in area to a given circle, is times the ratio accepted by mechanics in general was determined by given by the following method: Divide the diameter into 7 equal parts by circumference: Inscribe in the given circle a square, and to three times cut out of sheet metal a circle 10 inches in diameter, and a square of This problem is not so generally known as that of squaring the circle, "a wheel supposed to be capable of producing a perpetual motion; the "''Father, I have invented a perpetual motion!'' said a little fellow perpetual motion machine one of the scientific impossibilities? then asked if the philosophic work cost much or required long time,

title:
  The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. To which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, and marvels


id: 37681
title: The Teaching of Geometry
author: Smith, David Eugene
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  from geometry as from any other subject of study,--given teachers of for the general case that the sum of the angles of a triangle equals two perpendicular to a line, and how to make an angle equal to a given In his work Euclid placed all of the leading propositions of plane special points and lines relating to the triangle and the circle, and propositions; in other words, to write a textbook on plane geometry. In the proof of the early propositions of plane geometry, and again at point, a straight line, and a circle exists, he practically postulates Euclid stated the proposition thus, "If in a triangle two angles be the proposition that, if alternate angles are equal, the lines are parallels, and we get the figure of plane geometry relating to lines the circle as a line is becoming quite general in elementary geometry,


