The Path-Way to Knowledg, Containing the First Principles of GeometrieRecord, Robert
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The Path-Way to Knowledg, Containing the First Principles of Geometrie
Record, Robert
Geometry -- Early works to 1800
The fift sorte doth containe all other fashions of foure
cornered figurs, and ar called of the Grekes _trapezia_, of
Latin mẽ _mensulæ_ and of Arabitians, _helmuariphe_, they may be
called in englishe _borde formes_, [Sidenote: Borde formes.]
they haue no syde equall to an other as these examples shew,
neither keepe they any rate in their corners, and therfore are
they counted _vnruled formes_, and the other foure kindes onely
are counted _ruled formes_, in the kynde of quadrangles. Of
these vnruled formes ther is no numbre, they are so mannye and
so dyuers, yet by arte they may be changed into other kindes of
figures, and therby be brought to measure and proportion, as in
the thirtene conclusion is partly taught, but more plainly in my
booke of measuring you may see it.
And nowe to make an eande of the dyuers kyndes of figures, there
dothe folowe now figures of .v. sydes, other .v. corners, which
we may call _cink-angles_, whose sydes partlye are all equall as
in A, and those are counted _ruled cinkeangles_, and partlye
vnequall, as in B, and they are called _vnruled_.
[Illustration: A]
[Illustration: B]
Likewyse shall you iudge of _siseangles_, which haue sixe
corners, _septangles_, whiche haue seuen angles, and so forth,
for as mannye numbres as there maye be of sydes and angles, so
manye diuers kindes be there of figures, vnto which yow shall
geue names according to the numbre of their sides and angles, of
whiche for this tyme I wyll make an ende, [Sidenote: A squyre.]
and wyll sette forthe on example of a syseangle, whiche I had
almost forgotten, and that is it, whose vse commeth often in
Geometry, and is called a _squire_, is made of two long squares
ioyned togither, as this example sheweth.
[Illustration]
And thus I make an eand to speake of platte formes, and will
briefelye saye somwhat touching the figures of _bodeis_ which
partly haue one platte forme for their bound, and y^t iust roũd
as a _globe_ hath, or ended long as in an _egge_, and a _tunne
fourme_, whose pictures are these.
[Illustration: The globe as is before.]
Howe be it you must marke that I meane not the very figure of a
tunne, when I saye tunne form, but a figure like a tunne, for a
_tune fourme_, hath but one plat forme, and therfore must needs
be round at the endes, where as a _tunne_ hath thre platte
formes, and is flatte at eche end, as partly these pictures do
shewe.
_Bodies of two plattes_, are other cantles or halues of those
other bodies, that haue but one platte forme, or els they are
lyke in foorme to two such cantles ioyned togither as this A.
doth partly eppresse: or els it is called a _rounde spire_, or
_stiple fourme_, as in this figure is some what expressed.
[Sidenote: A rounde spier.]
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