 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1819 - 574 pages
...SECTION THIRD. Of the Sphere. DEFTNITIONS. 437. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle I... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1822 - 394 pages
...CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ITS ANGLES. Definitions. \ • I. The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curve line. Note. In common language,... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1825 - 276 pages
...the Circle and the Measure of Angles. DEFINITIONS. ,, . 90. THE circumference of a circle is a curved line all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line*. 91. Every straight line... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 280 pages
...Of the Circle and the Measure of Angles. DEFINITIONS. 90. THE circumference of a circle is a curved line all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line*. Fig. 46. 91. Every straight... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - 1825 - 570 pages
...Of the Circle and the Measure of Angles. DEFINITIONS. ^0. THE circumference of a circle is a curved line all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line*. 46. 91. Every straight... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 294 pages
...SECTION THIRD. Of the Sphere. DEFINITIONS. ' 437. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1828 - 346 pages
...: a2. BOOK VII. THE SPHERE. Definitions. 437. The sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. D The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line.* 2. Every straight line,... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1837 - 216 pages
...THB CIRCLE AND THE MEASURE OF ANGLES. • 84. Definitions. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line. . 85. Definitions. The radius... | |
 | Euclid, James Thomson - Geometry - 1837 - 410 pages
...after offering objections to the method of Proclns next to be explained, assumes as an axiom, that " a line, all the points of which are equally distant from a straight line in the same plane with it, is itself a straight line." Of this he endeavonrs to show... | |
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A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre; as the figure ADB E. 
