| Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1806 - 546 pages
...and which being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. POSTULATES. I. LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. II. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. , III.... | |
| John Playfair - Mathematics - 1806 - 320 pages
...which, being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. N. * POSTULATES. I. LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. II. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. HI. And... | |
| Missions - 1825 - 618 pages
...it would not submit. I would have -demonstrated it mathematically, and commenced by assuming " that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other ; " but on finding my first corollary was, " the whole is greater than its part," I left the statement,... | |
| Charles Butler - Mathematics - 1814 - 528 pages
...an opportunity of practical as well as mental improvement. 83. Postulate 1. If it be granted, that " a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point," it follows as an evident consequence, that a straight line can be drawn from the point A to... | |
| Euclides - 1816 - 588 pages
...and which, being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. POSTULATES. I. LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. II. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. III. And... | |
| John Playfair - 1819 - 354 pages
...which, being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. • V POSTULATES. " LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. V H. . That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. HI.... | |
| Frederick Beasley - Philosophy - 1822 - 584 pages
...together by a right line, as that the first postulate is true, which requires it to be granted, that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point? Does a recurrence to the postulate render the matter any more clear or incontrovertible? The... | |
| Peter Nicholson - Architecture - 1823 - 210 pages
...straight line, without coinciding with one another. 47. POSTULATES, OR DEMANDS. 1. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced, or continued, to any length. 3. That a circle may... | |
| Edward Riddle - Nautical astronomy - 1824 - 572 pages
...other, they cannot both be parallel to the same straight line. POSTULATES. 1. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a straight line may be produced to any length in the same direction. 3. That a circle... | |
| Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 1046 pages
...and which, being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. POSTULATES. 1. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. That... | |
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