Davies, Charles, 1798-1876 · New York and Chicago, A. S. Barnes and company · leaf 147
will contain 12 cubic feet; were it 2 feet inheight, it would contain two tiers of cubes, or 24 cubic feet;were it 3 feet in height, it would contain three tiers of tubes,or 36 cubic feet. The magnitude of a solid, its volume or extent, forms whatis called its solidity; and this word is exclusively… … BOOK VI. 14 Of Parali e 1 op ip edons . As the cube has all its three dimensions equal, il the sideis 1, the solidity will be 1x1x1 = 1; if the side is 2, thesolidity will be 2x2x2 = 8; if the side is 3, the soliditywill be 3x3 X 3 = 27; and so on: hence, if the sides of aseries of cubes are to…
Geometry · Plane trigonometry
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