Category: Mathematics

The Path-Way to Knowledg, Containing the First Principles of Geometrie

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Chapters

4. Part 4

C. is the appointed pricke, from whiche vnto the line A.B. I must draw a perpendicular. Thefore I open the compas so wide, that it may haue one foote in C, and thother to reach...

8. Part 8

Bicause that A.B.C, the one triangle hath two corners A. and B, equal to D.E, that are twoo corners of the other triangle. D.E.F. and that they haue one side in theym bothe equa...

9. Part 9

If a right line be deuided into two equall partes, and one of these .ij. partes diuided agayn into two other partes, as happeneth the longe square that is made of the thyrd or l...

10. Part 10

Take the circle to be A.B.C, and the point assigned without it to be D. Now say I, that if there be drawen sundrie lines from D, and crosse the circle, endyng in the circumferen...

5. Part 5

The first square quadrate is A.B.C.D, and the seconde is E. Now would I make a squire about the quadrate A.B.C.D, whiche shall bee equall vnto the quadrate E.

7. Part 7

THE arte of makyng of Dials, bothe for the daie and the nyght, with certayn new formes of fixed dialles for the moon and other for the sterres, whiche may bee sette in glasse wi...

6. Part 6

A. is the angle appointed, and D.E.F. is the circle assigned, from which I must cut away a portion that doth contain an angle equall to this angle A. Therfore first I do draw a...

3. Part 3

But consideryng that I shall haue occasion to declare sundry figures anon, I will first shew some certaine varietees of lines that close no figures, but are bare lynes, and of t...

1. Part 1

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2. Part 2

Yet can no humayne science saie thus, but I onely, that there is no sparke of vntruthe in me: but all my doctrine and workes are without any blemishe of errour that mans reason...

11. Part 11

This Theoreme is none other, but the conuersion of the laste Theoreme beefore, and therefore needeth none other example. For as that did declare the equalitie of the arche lines...

12. Part 12

And herof commeth that seconnde thing wherin al agree [that seconnde . thing] if they can with their wysedome ouercome all vyces. Of the firste of those three sortes [_text read...