 | John Playfair - Mathematics - 1806 - 320 pages
...Wherefore, straight lines, &c. QED % • PROP. XXXI. PROB. TO draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line ; it is required to draw a straight line through the J] point A, parallel to the straight... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1806 - 546 pages
...Wherefore, straight lines, &c. QED PROP. XXXI. PROB. TO draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line ; it is required to draw a straight line through the point A, parallel to the EAF straight... | |
 | Euclides - 1816 - 588 pages
...CD. Wherefore straight lines, &c. QED PROP. XXXI. PROS. To draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line; it is required to draw a straight l/ A ' IT line through the point A, parallei to the... | |
 | John Playfair - Circle-squaring - 1819 - 350 pages
...Where- \ fore straight lines, &c. QED PROP. XXXI. PROB. To druw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line ; it is ret quired to draw a straight line . through the point A, parallel t« "^*" -... | |
 | Miles Bland - Euclid's Elements - 1819 - 444 pages
...PROBLEMS. . •' <.' ''/:•' . SECT. I. (1.) FROM a given point, to draw the shortest line possible to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BD the given line. From A let fall the perpendicular AC; this will be less than any other line AD drawn... | |
 | Miles Bland - Euclid's Elements - 1819 - 442 pages
...triangle. GEOMETRICAL PROBLEMS. SECT. I. (1.) FROM a given point, to draw the shortest line possible to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BD the given line. From A let fall the perpendicular AC; this will be less than any other line AD drawn... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 1046 pages
...Wherefore straight lines, &c. QED Proposition XXXI. Problem. To draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC E л г the given straight line ; it is required .to draw a straight line through the ./^ point A,... | |
 | Euclid, John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1826 - 326 pages
...straight lines. &e, QED PROP. XXXI. PROB. To draw a straight line through a given point parallel td a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line, it is required tit draw a straight line thrbugh thfe point A, parallel to the straight... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 546 pages
...Wherefore, straight lines, &c. QED PROP. XXXI. PROB. To draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line ; it is required to draw a straight line through the point A, parallel to the straight... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1828 - 346 pages
...point C. PROBLEM. 1 33. At a given point, in a given straight line, to erect a perpen. dicular to this line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given line. Take the points B and C at equal distances from A ; then from the points B and C as centres, with a... | |
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To draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line ; it is required to draw a straight line through the point A, parallel to the straight hue BC. In BC take any point... 
