Bibliotheca Polyglotta

PROPOSITION 7.

第七題

If two triangles have one angle equal to one angle, the sides about other angles proportional, and the remaining angles either both less or both not less than a right angle, the triangles will be equiangular and will have those angles equal, the sides about which are proportional.

兩三角形之第一角等。而第二相當角、各兩旁之邊、比例等。其第三相當角。或俱小于直角。或俱不小于直角。卽兩形為等角形。而對各相似邊之角、各等。

Let ABC, DEF be two triangles having one angle equal to one angle, the angle BAC to the angle EDF, the sides about other angles ABC, DEF proportional, so that, as AB is to BC, so is DE to EF, and, first, each of the remaining angles at C, F less than a right angle; I say that the triangle ABC is equiangular with the triangle DEF, the angle ABC will be equal to the angle DEF, and the remaining angle, namely the angle at C, equal to the remaining angle, the angle at F.

For, if the angle ABC is unequal to the angle DEF, one of them is greater. Let the angle ABC be greater; and on the straight line AB, and at the point B on it, let the angle ABG be constructed equal to the angle DEF. [I. 23]

Then, since the angle A is equal to D, and the angle ABG to the angle DEF, therefore the remaining angle AGB is equal to the remaining angle DFE. [I. 32] Therefore the triangle ABG is equiangular with the triangle DEF. Therefore, as AB is to BG, so is DE to EF [VI. 4] But, as DE is to EF, so by hypothesis is AB to BC; therefore AB has the same ratio to each of the straight lines BC, BG; [V. 11] therefore BC is equal to BG, [V. 9] so that the angle at C is also equal to the angle BGC. [I. 5] But, by hypothesis, the angle at C is less than a right angle; therefore the angle BGC is also less than a right angle; so that the angle AGB adjacent to it is greater than a right angle. [I. 13] And it was proved equal to the angle at F; therefore the angle at F is also greater than a right angle. But it is by hypothesis less than a right angle: which is absurd. Therefore the angle ABC is not unequal to the angle DEF; therefore it is equal to it. But the angle at A is also equal to the angle at D; therefore the remaining angle at C is equal to the remaining angle at F. [I. 32] Therefore the triangle ABC is equiangular with the triangle DEF.

But, again, let each of the angles at C, F be supposed not less than a right angle; I say again that, in this case too, the triangle ABC is equiangular with the triangle DEF.

For, with the same construction, we can prove similarly that BC is equal to BG; so that the angle at C is also equal to the angle BGC. [I. 5] But the angle at C is not less than a right angle; therefore neither is the angle BGC less than a right angle. Thus in the triangle BGC the two angles are not less than two right angles: which is impossible. [I. 17] Therefore, once more, the angle ABC is not unequal to the angle DEF; therefore it is equal to it. But the angle at A is also equal to the angle at D; therefore the remaining angle at C is equal to the remaining angle at F. [I. 32] Therefore the triangle ABC is equiangular with the triangle DEF.

Therefore etc. Q. E. D.

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