The Morley miracle (Q1914964)

About 1904, Frank Morley discovered the famous Theorem: The points of intersection of the adjacent trisectors of the angles of any triangle \(ABC\) are the vertices of an equilateral triangle \(A'B'C'\). In this paper, the author starts from the ``full picture'' (Figure 1) of the Morley triangle which contains the values of all angles, too. His aim is to present a simple, motivated proof of Morley's theorem (``this picture tells the whole story and indeed proves itself'') -- but, as a matter of fact, he only proves (by making stronger assumptions) a weak version of a converse of Morley's theorem in the following sense: ``Let be given a triangle \(ABC\) (having the angles \(\alpha, \beta, \gamma\) at \(A,B,C\), respectively) and an equilateral triangle \(A'B'C'\) lying in the interior of the triangle \(ABC\) in such a way that \(\sphericalangle AB'C' = \sphericalangle BA'C' = (\gamma + \pi)/3\) \((\Rightarrow \sphericalangle AC'B' = (\beta + \pi)/3\), \(\sphericalangle BC'A' = (\alpha + \pi)/3\), because of \(\alpha + \beta + \gamma = \pi)\). Then application of the law of sines to the triangle \(AC'B\) yields: \(\sphericalangle C'AB = \alpha/3\), \(\sphericalangle C'BA = \beta/3\). This means: The lines \(AC'\) and \(BC'\) are (necessarily) adjacent trisectors (with respect to the side \(AB)\) of the angles \(\sphericalangle BAC\) \((= \alpha)\) and \(\sphericalangle ABC\) \((= \beta)\) of the triangle \(ABC\), respectively.'' Remark: In Figure 3, the designation of two sides of the triangle \((ABC')\) is wrong: \(\sin (C + \pi)\) and \(\sin (B + \pi)\) are to be replaced by \(\sin (C + \pi)/3\), respectively.