The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 01 (of 11)
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Coroll. V. If the angles A and B be equal, the sides A C and C B will
also be equal, because A B and E F are parallel; and, on the contrary,
if the sides A C and C B be equal, the angles A and B will also be
equal. For if they be not equal, let the angles B and G be equal.
Wherefore, seeing G B and E F are parallels, and the angles G and B
equal, the sides G C and C B will also be equal; and because C B and A C
are equal by supposition, C G and C A will also be equal; which cannot
be, by the 11th article.
Coroll. VI. From hence it is manifest, that if two radii of a circle be
connected by a strait line, the angles they make with that connecting
line will be equal to one another; and if there be added that segment of
the circle, which is subtended by the same line which connects the
radii, then the angles, which those radii make with the circumference,
will also be equal to one another. For a strait line, which subtends any
arch, makes equal angles with the same; because, if the arch and the
subtense be divided in the middle, the two halves of the segment will be
congruous to one another, by reason of the uniformity both of the
circumference of the circle, and of the strait line.
[Sidenote: The circumferences of circles are to one another as their
diameters are.]
13. Perimeters of circles are to one another, as their semidiameters
are. For let there be any two circles, as, in the first figure, B C D
the greater, and E F G the lesser, having their common centre at A; and
let their semidiameters be A C and A E. I say, A C has the same
proportion to A E, which the perimeter B C D has to the perimeter E F G.
For the magnitude of the semidiameters A C and A E is determined by the
distance of the points C and E from the centre A; and the same distances
are acquired by the uniform motion of a point from A to C, in such
manner, that in equal times the distances acquired be equal. But the
perimeters B C D and E F G are also determined by the same distances of
the points C and E from the centre A; and therefore the perimeters B C D
and E F G, as well as the semidiameters A C and A E, have their
magnitudes determined by the same cause, which cause makes, in equal
times, equal spaces. Wherefore, by the 13th chapter and 6th article, the
perimeters of circles and their semidiameters are proportionals; which
was to be proved.
[Sidenote: In triangles strait lines parallel to the bases are to one
another, as the parts of the sides which they cut off from
the vertex.]