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" ... that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides. "
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review - Page 475
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843
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The Posthumous Works ...

Isaac Watts - 1754 - 772 pages
...and easy of comprehension. What should we think of a mathematician who should say I will not believe that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides of a right-angled triangle unless I have ocular demonstration of the facts ? And what do we think of...
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The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 11

1818 - 594 pages
...demonstrate geometrical truths, I asked whether they were perfectly convinced that in a rightangled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ? He answered in the affirmative. I then asked how they were certain of this fact ?...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...,'.I asked the Japanese academician whether he was perfectly convinced that in a right angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ? He answered in the affirmative. I then asked how they were certain of this fact,...
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Lord Byron's Works ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 404 pages
...the schools is of the CANINE SPECIES , and not very intelligible. (3) The discovery of Pythagoras , that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides of a right angled triangle. Whose daring revels shock the sight, When vice and infamy...
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Universal Technological Dictionary: Or, Familiar Explanations of ..., Volume 2

George Crabb - 1823 - 704 pages
...right angle, as BC in the annexed diagram. According to the 47th Proposition ' of Euclid's Elements, the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides, as B C1 = BA* -f AC* ie the square BE equal to the squares BGandCH. HYPOTHESIS (Rltet.)...
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Memoirs of a Captivity in Japan, During the Years 1811, 1812, and ..., Volume 2

Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin - 1824 - 372 pages
...demonstrate geometrical truths, I asked whether they were perfectly convinced that in a right-angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ? He answered in the affirmative. I then asked how they were certain of this fact,...
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A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 3

Voltaire - 1824 - 432 pages
...the ureas of the circles will also be proportional .to the squares of their radii, . . . . Thus, as the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the two sides, a circle, of which this hypothenuse is, the radius, will be equal to two circles having...
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Memoirs of a Captivity in Japan, During the Years 1811, 1812, and ..., Volume 2

Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin - 1824 - 372 pages
...demonstrate geometrical truths, I asked whether they were perfectly convinced that in a right-angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ? He answered in the affirmative. I then asked how they were certain of this fact,...
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A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton].

Voltaire - 1824 - 422 pages
...corresponding sides, the areas of the circles will also be proportional to the squares of their radii. Thus, as the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the two sides, a circle, of which this hypothenuse is the radius, will be equal to two circles having for...
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Lives of the Ancient Philosophers

François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1825 - 302 pages
...that the morning and evening star was the same, and demonstrated that in every right angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides. It is said that he was so transported with the discovery of this famous theorem, that...
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