 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1806 - 546 pages
...Post. c 10. 1. TO draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of an unlimited length, from a given point without it. Let AB be the given straight line, which may be produced to any length both ways, and let C be a point without it ; it is required to... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1810 - 478 pages
...perpendicular from a given point in a given line, or to make a right angle . . 26 3. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line from a given point without it . 26 4. To make an angle of any proposed number of degrees upon a given straight line, by the scale... | |
 | Charles Butler - Mathematics - 1814 - 528 pages
...space, (axiom 10.) therefore they cannot meet each other in more than one point. 121. Prop. \Z. Drawing a perpendicular to a given straight line, from a given point without it, is called " letting fall a perj*ndicular." We are told in the proposition to " take any point D upon... | |
 | Miles Bland - Euclid's Elements - 1819 - 442 pages
...circle which shall pass through a given point, have a given radius, and touch a given straight line. Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point through which the circle must pass. In AB take any point B ; and from it draw BD at right angles to... | |
 | Miles Bland - Euclid's Elements - 1819 - 444 pages
...circle which shall pass through a given point, have a given radius, and touch a given straight line. Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point through which the circle must pass. In AB take any point B ; and from it draw BD at right angles to... | |
 | Matthew Iley - 1820 - 512 pages
...the perpendicular CD. PROBLEM IV. To draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line, through a given point without it. Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point without it. FC In AB take any point D, and draw the straight line CD. Then from C and D as centres with the opening... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 1046 pages
...XII. Problem. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of an unlimited length, from a given point without it. Let AB be the given straight line, which may be produced to any length both ways, and let ะก be a point without it. It is required to... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1826 - 504 pages
...perpendicular from a given point in a given line, or to make a right angle . . 26 3. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line from a given point without it . 26 4. To make an angle of any proposed number of degrees upon a given straight line, by the scale... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 546 pages
...XII. PROB. . To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of an unlimited length, from a given point without it. Let AB be the given straight line, which may be produced to any length both ways, and let C be a point without it. It is required to draw... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - Masonry - 1828 - 276 pages
...required. PROBLEM III. From a given point out of a straight line to let fall a perpendicular. Fig. 3. Let AB be the given straight line, and c the given point ; it is required to draw a straight line from c perpendicular to AB. From c, as a centre, with any... | |
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To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of an unlimited length, from a given point without it. Let AB be the given straight line, which may be produced to any length both ways, and let c be a point without it. 
