GEOMETRY (PART 1) Serial 77$A Edition 1 PRELIMINARY DEFINITIONS Noth.-The study of Geometry is a process of systematic and orderly reasoning rather than a matter of memory. The student is advised to study the principles and propositions stated until he understands them thoroughly and sees their relation one to another, and, when a proposition is accompanied by an explanation in small type, to read over the explanation carefully one or more times, until he clearly understands the matter, following out the references to the figure when a figure is given. If he will do this he will find Geometry to be of great benefit and assistance to him in his subsequent studies. But he is not required to commit to memory the explanations or any part of the text except a few of the more important principles and propositions, such as those to which the Examination Questions relate. 1. Every material body possesses two general properties without regard to any other condition, namely: form, or shape,
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CONTENTS; Note--This volume ¡3 made up of a number of separate Sections, the page numbers of which usually begin with 1 To enable the reader to distinguish between tbe different Sections, each one is designated by a number preceded oy a Section mark (f) which appears at tbe top of each page, opposite the page number In this list of contents, the Section number is given following the title of the Section, and under each title appears a full synopsis of the subjects treated This table of contents will enable the reader to find readily any topic covered; GEOMETRY, § 7, § 8 Pages V; Preliminary Definitions 1-2; Straight-Line Figures 3-29; Angles and perpendiculars; Parallels; Polygons; Triangles; Quadrilaterals; Additional properties of triangles; The Circle 30-36; Measurement of Angles 37-42; §8; Proportion 1- 6; Polygons 7-33; Similar triangles; Other similar polygons; Areas of polygons; Regular polygons; Circular Me
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CONTENTS; Note--This volume ¡3 made up of a number of separate Sections, the page numbers of which usually begin with 1 To enable the reader to distinguish between tbe different Sections, each one is designated by a number preceded oy a Section mark (f) which appears at tbe top of each page, opposite the page number In this list of contents, the Section number is given following the title of the Section, and under each title appears a full synopsis of the subjects treated This table of contents will enable the reader to find readily any topic covered; GEOMETRY, § 7, § 8 Pages V; Preliminary Definitions 1-2; Straight-Line Figures 3-29; Angles and perpendiculars; Parallels; Polygons; Triangles; Quadrilaterals; Additional properties of triangles; The Circle 30-36; Measurement of Angles 37-42; §8; Proportion 1- 6; Polygons 7-33; Similar triangles; Other similar polygons; Areas of polygons; Regular polygons; Circular Me
