The lost solar system of the ancients discovered (1856)
Wilson, John, writer in astronomy · London Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts · leaf 304
square of the other side. TRIANGLES. 291 In this series of triangles the squares of the 2 sides =square of hypothenuse = radius2, a constant quantity. Or the circumscribing square will represent the cube ofthe hypothenuse, and the inscribed square the cube of oneside of a triangle. Fig. 63. Every… … ——-^ / -~-v. \ / 7n / \ \ / y\ i / / / / ^ / A Fig. 63. Fig. 64. Fig. 64. Each corresponding square described on the per-pendicular will have the diagonal parallel to the diagonal ofthe square of the hypothenuse; and the extremities of thesediagonals beyond the quadrant will trace a pear-like…
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