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 189
nscribe the three chords of its three equal parts, which may be done by common geometry, ' because each of these thirds is similar to a fifth of the first arc already given. We shall then have a lunule equal to a retilineal figure, formed by the five chords of the small circle and the three chords… … Hence it may be readily seen, that if the given circles have to each other a certain ratio, which will admit of the angle F a c (Fig. 102, 103.) being constructed with the rule and compasses, in such a manner us to be to the angle e a c, in the reciprocal ratio of these circles, we may draw the…
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