 | Edward Albert Bowser - 1880 - 314 pàgines
...the preceding, first formed for the purpose of solving the problem * Sea Gregory's Examples, p. 130. of finding two mean proportionals, or the duplication...ancients, that of the trisection of an angle. The curve may be defined as the locus of a point in a line which slides on and revolves about a fixed point,... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - 1880 - 334 pàgines
...the preceding, first formed for the purpose of solving the problem * See Gregory's Examples, p. I3O. of finding two mean proportionals, or the duplication...problem not less celebrated among the ancients, that of tlie trisection of an angle. The curve may be defined as the locus of a point in a line which slides... | |
 | Thomas Henry Eagles - 1885 - 404 pàgines
...mathematician, who is supposed to have lived about the sixth century of our era, was invented by him for the purpose of constructing the solution of the problem of finding two mean proportionals. The curve is generated in the following manner: — In the diameter ACB of the circle ADBE (fig. 157)... | |
 | Thomas Henry Eagles - 1885 - 401 pàgines
...mathematician, who is supposed to have lived about the sixth century of our era, was invented by him. for the purpose of constructing the solution of the problem of finding two mean proportionals. The curve is generated in the following manner : — In the diameter ACB of the circle AD BE (fig.... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1888 - 328 pàgines
...equation sought. The cissoid was invented by Diocles, a Greek mathematician of the sixth century AD, for the purpose of constructing the solution of the problem of finding two mean proportionals, of which the duplication of the cube is a particular case. COR. 2. To duplicate the cube, in Fig. 79,... | |
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Examples, p. 130. of finding two mean proportionals, or the duplication of the cube ; but it is more readily applicable to another problem not less celebrated among the ancients, that of the trisection of an angle. The curve may be defined as the locus... 