 | Rev. John Allen - Astronomy - 1822 - 508 pages
...equal, but which is neither equilateral nor right angled. POSTULATES. 1. It is required to be granted, that a right line, may be drawn from any point to any other point. 3. That from any point as a centre, at any distance from that centre, a circle may be described. 2.... | |
 | Euclid - 1826 - 234 pages
...either way, do not meet one another.* POSTULATES. 1. Grant, that a right line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a finite right line may be produced directly forwards. 3. That a circle may be described with any distance and from any centre.... | |
 | Euclid - Geometry - 1853 - 176 pages
...alternate angles, as are also DGH and GHE. J 7 POSTULATES. Let it be granted : — 1. That a straight line may be drawn from any point to any other point. 2. That any finite straight line may be extended, or produced, to any length. 3. That a circle may be described... | |
 | Euclides - 1877 - 58 pages
...which is contained by more than four straight lines. POSTULATES. Let it be granted : 1. That a straight line may be drawn from any point to any other point. 2. That a straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. That a circle may be described with... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless - Geometry - 1879 - 282 pages
...it. The perimeter of a circle is its circumference. Postu1ates. 1. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any point to any other point; 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line ; 3. That a circle may be... | |
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That a straight line may be drawn from any point to any other point. 2. That a straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 