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Spherical Geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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The object of this paper is to bring together the principal properties of figures described on the surface of the sphere that can be established without the use of Solid Geometry or of Trigonometry.

The following properties of the spherical surface, which correspond to the definitions and axioms in Plane Geometry, are assumed. They may be considered as derived from one's general notion of the sphere.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1883