 | Euclides - 1855 - 270 pages
...well as to plane figures. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained [or, bounded] by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. The circumference of a circle is its boundary. The space contained within the boundary, is called the... | |
 | Robert Rawson - 1856 - 178 pages
...inclosed by one or more boundaries. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. XVL And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVH. A diameter of a circle is a straight line... | |
 | 1856 - 422 pages
...is a plane figure contained or bounded by a curve line, called the circumference or periphery, which is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain...within the figure to the circumference are equal to each other. This point is called the centre of the circle, and each of the straight Unes is called... | |
 | John Weale - Architecture - 1859 - 622 pages
...distances, and taking the thickness of solids. Circle, a plain figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight...within the figure to the circumference are equal to one anCHU CIRCULAR. С Г- А other, and this point is called the centre of the circle. The circumference... | |
 | 1858 - 402 pages
...figure, contained by one line, selfinterest, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all lines drawn from a certain point within the figure, to the circumference (i,e., all motives, from the highest to the lowest men), are equal to one another. Sometimes a circle... | |
 | Robert Potts - Geometry, Plane - 1860 - 380 pages
...enclosed by one or more boundaries. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the center of the circle. xvn. A diameter of a circle is a straight line... | |
 | James McCosh - History - 1860 - 512 pages
...to any length in a straight line;" "There may be such a figure as a circle, that is, a plane figure such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure are equal to one another;" and that "A circle may be described from any centre at any distance from... | |
 | James Smith - Circle-squaring - 1861 - 292 pages
...imagine," is a plane figure, enclosed by one line, which is called the circumference of the circle, it is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. This point within the figure is called the centre of the circle. A straight line drawn through the... | |
 | Euclides - 1861 - 464 pages
...is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all st. lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. Ax. 1. Things which are equal to the same thing, are equal to one another. Def. 7, IV. A st. line is... | |
 | William Schofield Binns - 1861 - 238 pages
...eight ; a nonagon, nine ; a decagon, ten , an undecagon, eleven ; and a dodecagon, twelve sides. (24) A circle is a plane figure contained by one line called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within the circle, called the centre. (25) A line... | |
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A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. 
