"Isosceles" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... age, and it has thus been secured against the chance of oblivion. A new light must have flashed on the mind of the first man (Thales, or whatever may have been his name) who demonstrated the properties of the isosceles triangle. For he found that it was not sufficient to meditate on the figure, as it lay before his eyes, or the conception of it, as it existed in his mind, and thus endeavour to get at the knowledge of its properties, but that it was necessary to ...
— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant
... the base of an isosceles triangle are equal, and if the equal sides of the triangle are produced, the exterior angles will ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock
... compelled to jettison your cargo last night in bad storm to save ship. Approximate location four miles due east Port Baracoa, Cuba. Salvage boat take position at apex isosceles triangle 27.6 degrees with lighthouse and summit hill a mile ...
— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton |
