Recreations in science and natural philosophy: Dr. Hutton's translation of Montucla's edition of Ozanam [electronic resource] (1844)
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717, Montucla, Jean Etienne, 1725-1799, Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823, Riddle, Edward, 1788-1854, Crosby, Thomas Boor, Sir, 1830-1916 former owner, St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School Library former owner, King's College London · London, printed for Thomas Tegg... · leaf 142
, because the angle a is common, and the angle a e b equal to the angle a b c ; consequently ac: abII ab: ae, whence it follows that the rectangle of a c X a e, or of a e x a h, which is the same since a n = a c, is equal to the square of a b. In like manner it may be proved .that the square of b c… … the sides is equal to the square of the base ; which is a very ingenious generali- zation of the celebrated theorem of Pythagoras. • For tliis ingenious theorem, from wliich is deduced Oie famous problem of the right-angled triangle, we are indebted to Claiiault, junior, who published it at the age…
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