Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924, Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge memorial publication fund · New Haven, Conn., and New York city, Yale university press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 58
es," of course, mean the five regular solids. These solids were of much interest to the Greeks of the Sixth Century B. C, because it was then thought that the atoms of the elements, which made up the universe, were shaped like the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the cube and the icosahedron. The… … Fig- 33- AB is the given line and ABE is the semicircle. (See Fig. 23-) Euclid in sub- stance says: at A draw a line equal to AB at right angles to that line and call its point of termination G. The point C is midway between A and B. Connect C and G. In Euclid's diagram the point H Is the…
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