Proclus also attributes to Pythagoras the theory of proportionals and the construction of the five "cosmic figures," the five regular solids.
He also solved the problem of the two mean proportionals by means of certain curves, the nature of which, in the absence of any description of them in our sources, can only be conjectured.
Again, if you are demonstrating that four proportionals will also be proportionals alternately, there will be one cause or middle term, if the subject of the conclusion be lines; another, if the subject be numbers.
The meaning of the words that 'solid bodies are always connected by two middle terms' or mean proportionalshas been much disputed.
Was his confounding two mean proportionals with one mean proportional found twice over a trick of the same intent?
This effect I have already given reasons for supposing may be due to the presence of a true protoxide, consisting of single proportionals (696.
They both unite with it in single proportional or equivalent quantities; and the number of proportionalsappearing to have an intimate and important relation to the decomposability of a body (697.
It consists of singleproportionals of its elements, but is not on that account an exception to the rule (679.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proportionals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
