 | Mathematics - 1860 - 294 pages
...of the intervals, as 9 — 8, into 10 equal parts, and the scale will be completed. § 8. PROB. IV. Through a given point to draw a line parallel to a given Sne. Let the line ab be given by the projections and references of two points, 12 of a and 7.80 of... | |
 | Johann Georg Heck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 332 pages
...26). 2. To describe a given angle m, on a given straight line ab, at a given point a (fig. 27). 3. Through a given point, to draw a line parallel to a given line. 4. To bisect a given angle (pi. 2, fig. 77). 5. To bisect a given line (fig. 75). 6. To draw... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - 1863 - 268 pages
...the given distance, which will be found just to touch the given line. Prob. 11. (PI. II. Fig. 20.) Through a given point to draw a line parallel to a given line. Let A be the given point ; CD the given line. 1st. Place one foot of the dividers at A, and bring... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1863 - 464 pages
...bisected, the original arc or augle will be divided into eight equal parts ; and so on. PEOBLEM VI. Through a given point, to draw a line parallel to a given line. Let A be a given point, and BC a given line. From the point A as a centre, with a radius AE,... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Plane trigonometry - 1864 - 324 pages
...the degrees marked off and numbered the same as on the rule just described. GEOMETRICAL PROBLEMS. 15. Through a given point, to draw a line parallel to a given line. Let D be the given point, and AB c D the given line. With the dividers • ••• measure... | |
 | Samuel Alsop - Surveying - 1865 - 440 pages
...circumference at B. Join EB, and draw BD perpendicular to it. BD will be the tangent. Problem 7.— Through a given point to draw a line parallel to a given straight line. 97. First Method.—Let A (Fig. 21) be the given point, and BC the given line. From A to BC let fall... | |
 | Richard Wormell - Geometry, Modern - 1868 - 286 pages
...~—f — V^ to any other similar ratio ; thus, — 5^- V^— BD ^AD _B_C, / . \ On a plot of ground through a given point to draw a line parallel to a given straight line. 175. Let MN be the given straight line, I the given point (fig. 12). Take a cord, and make a knot at... | |
 | Auguste Frédéric Lendy - Military topography - 1869 - 328 pages
...given Point to Trace a Perpendicular to a given Line — To produce a Direction beyond an Obstacle — Through a given Point to draw a Line parallel to a given Line — To find the distance between two Points, one of which is inaccessible — Ditto, both Points... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Geometry - 1872 - 124 pages
...arc cutting the arc FG. Draw AG. The angle A — C (III. 12; III. 11). PLANE GEOMETRY. PROBLEM VI. 6. Through a given point to draw a line parallel to a given straight line. Let C be the given point, and AB the given line. From C draw a line CD to AB - at C in the line DC make... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 1060 pages
...shall be equal to one another. PROP. XXVIII B. THEOREM. Through a given point there can be but one parallel to a given straight line. Let AB be the given line, and C a given point Drop CA perpendicular to AB, and through C draw the straight line CR at right angles... | |
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Through a given point to draw a line parallel to a given straight line. Let C be the given point, and AB the given line. 
