| Henry Fergus - 1838 - 332 pągines
...sensual gratification deserves, for a moment, to be compared with the joy of Pythagoras, on discovering that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides of the right-angled triangle ? — with the transport of Archimedes, when he sprung... | |
| Franēois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1841 - 322 pągines
...evening star was the same : he was the first also to demonstrate that in every rightangled triangle, the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides. It is said that Pythagoras was so transported with the discovery of this famous theorem,... | |
| 1843 - 596 pągines
...applying to the text of the Bible. His faith, like that of the Protestant, is more or less firm according to the strength of his rational conviction. Like the...mathematical student believes that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the squares of the sides enclosing the right angle, because he has read Euclid's... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pągines
...opinions, that there must necessarily be hostile mathematical sects; some affirming and some denying that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides. But we do not think either the one analogy or the other of the smallest value. Our way of ascertaining... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pągines
...opinions that there must necessarily be hostile mathematical sects, some affirming, and some denying, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides. But we do not think either the one analogy or the other of the smallest value. Our way of ascertaining... | |
| Euclides - 1845 - 546 pągines
...the two following ; the sides of similar triangles are proportionals ; and in right-angled triangles the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the two sides. And I am not afraid to suppose several unknown quantities, that I may reduce the proposed... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pągines
...opinions, that there must necessarily be hostile mathematical sects, some affirming and some denying inguished it — unflinching and nnspari ng devotion , boldness of speec But we do not think either the one analogy or the other of the smallest value. Our way of ascertaining... | |
| 1840 - 832 pągines
...the power of at once enabling Zerah Colburn to perform his mental calculations, Pythagoras to prove that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides of a right-angled triangle, and Laplace to write " La Mdcanique Celeste." Observation... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pągines
...of the schools is of the canine tpeciei. and not very intelligible. ' The discovery of Pythagoras, My brotherhood 's other two sides of a right-angled triangle. • On a saint's day, the studentl wear surplices In chapel.... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1848 - 488 pągines
...proposition that the sum of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the third side ; or the theorem, the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ; and they would never differ in their conceptions of these two truths. But the more... | |
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