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If only it could be proved, with equal ease, that "there is a Triangle whose angles are together not-less than two right angles"! But alas, that is an ignis fatuus that has never yet been caught! The man, who first proves that Theorem, without using Euclid's 12th Axiom or any substitute for it, will certainly deserve a place among the world's great discoverers.
I take this opportunity of replying to one or two criticisms, which have been published, on the Second Edition - earnestly assuring the writers of those criticisms that, in treating the questions at issue between us from a not-wholly-solemn point of view, I have been actuated by no feeling of disrespect towards them, but simply from the wish to lighten a subject, naturally somewhat too heavy and sombre, and thus to make it a little more palatable to the general Reader.
At p. 12 of the and Edition, the enunciation of Prop. VI (which re-appears, in a modified form, at p. 34 of the 3rd Edition) stood thus: -
"If the vertical angle of a Sector of a Circle be divided by radii into 2n equal angles, thus forming 2n equal Sectors; and if the chord of each such Sector be not less than the radius of the Circle: the original Sector is not less than a times the Triangle cut off from it by its chords." My controversy with Nature on this enunciation, will be best given in the form of a dialogue. (Of course I quote verbatim.)
Nature. (Dec.6, 1888.) "How are the figures to be constructed, if n be greater than 2?"
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Well, suppose u were equal to 4: i. E. We have to divide the vertical angle into 24 equal parts. Bisect it: that gives halves. Bisect the halves: that gives quarters. Bisect again: that gives eighths. Bisect once more that give sixteenths. Voila tout!
Nature. (june 13, Shade of Euclid! Who knows not such things? We admitted the same, but stated that our difficulty in the construction was the con dition imposed in the enunciation: viz., the chord of each such sector not less than the radius of the circle.' Take Mr. Dodgson's illustration of a sixteenth: this would necessitate that the original angle should be at least 960 we have further noted that no one of the chords in Mr. Dodgson's figures is even equal to the radius.
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Excerpt from Curiosa Mathematica, Vol. 1: A New Theory of Parallels
If only it could be proved, with equal ease, that "there is a Triangle whose angles are together not-less than two right angles"! But alas, that is an ignis fatuus that has never yet been caught! The man, who first proves that Theorem, without using Euclid's 12th Axiom or any substitute for it, will certainly deserve a place among the world's great discoverers.
I take this opportunity of replying to one or two criticisms, which have been published, on the Second Edition - earnestly assuring the writers of those criticisms that, in treating the questions at issue between us from a not-wholly-solemn point of view, I have been actuated by no feeling of disrespect towards them, but simply from the wish to lighten a subject, naturally somewhat too heavy and sombre, and thus to make it a little more palatable to the general Reader.
At p. 12 of the and Edition, the enunciation of Prop. VI (which re-appears, in a modified form, at p. 34 of the 3rd Edition) stood thus: -
"If the vertical angle of a Sector of a Circle be divided by radii into 2n equal angles, thus forming 2n equal Sectors; and if the chord of each such Sector be not less than the radius of the Circle: the original Sector is not less than a times the Triangle cut off from it by its chords." My controversy with Nature on this enunciation, will be best given in the form of a dialogue. (Of course I quote verbatim.)
Nature. (Dec.6, 1888.) "How are the figures to be constructed, if n be greater than 2?"
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