Davies, Charles, 1798-1876 · New York and Chicago, A. S. Barnes and company · leaf 127
polyedrons are similar, when they are contained bythe same number of similar planes, and have their polyedralangles equal, each to each. 4. A prism is a solid, whose endsarc equal polygons, and whose sidefaces are parallelograms. Thus, the prism whose lower baseis the pentagon ABCDE, terminatesin… … ROOK V .27 Of the Prism 5. The altitude of a prism is the distance between its upperand lower bases : that is, it is a line drawn from a point of theupper base, perpendicular, to the lower base 6, A right prism is one in whichthe edges AF, BC, EK, HC, andDI, are perpendicular to the bases.In the…
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