They all came up with elegant proofs for the famous Pythagorean theorem; the rule that says for a right triangle, the square of one side plus the square of the other side is equal to the square of the hypotenuse.
They all came up with elegant proofs for the famous Pythagorean theorem, the rule that says for a right triangle, the square of one side plus the square of the other side is equal to the square of the hypotenuse.
Yonder, for example, is Cathedral Peak, some three miles away, with a scattered growth of this pine creeping like mosses over the roof and around the beveled edges of the north gable, nowhere giving any hint of an ascending axis.
And so what they thought, and this is what the ancient historians described, is that they effectively tried to draw a right angle triangle with the two entrances at each end of the hypotenuse.
To think about the projection, let's make a little right triangle like this, where what was the height of our spherical rectangle is the hypotenuse, and its projection is one of the legs.