 | Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 176 pages
...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 b С the given straight line ; it is required to draw a straight liae through the point a, parallel... | |
 | Euclides - 1853 - 146 pages
...Wherefore straight lines, &c. QED PROP. 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 the given straight line ; it is required to draw a straight line through the point A, parallel to... | |
 | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 400 pages
...Wherefore, straight lines, etc. QED PROPOSITION 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 line through the point A, parallel to... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1854 - 436 pages
...four equal parts, into eight, into sixteen, and so on. PROBLEM VI. Through a given point, to draw a line parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BO the given line. From the point A as a centre, F .g with a radius AE, greater than the shortest distance... | |
 | William Templeton (engineer.) - 1854 - 304 pages
...two equal parts . . . .29 3. From any given point in a right line to erect a perpendicular . 29 4. Through a given point to draw a straight line parallel to a given straightline 30 5. To divide a right line inti any number of equal parts . . 31 6. To divide a triangle... | |
 | Euclides - 1855 - 270 pages
...lines AB, CD, but on either side of both. PE 0 P. XXXL P 11 0 BLE M. To draw through a given point a straight line parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line. It is required to draw, through the point A, a straight line parallel to... | |
 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1855 - 628 pages
...found in the direction perpendicular to the parallels. To irme л straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and В ~, _.--\ С ПС the given i ,.---'' line. From the \ ^,--'' point A. as а Л centre, with a radius... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, Charles Davies - Geometry - 1857 - 442 pages
...four equal parts, into eight, into sixteen, and so on. PROBLEM VI. Through a given point, to draw a line parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given line. From the point A as a centre, „ E with a radius J.-E'jgreater than the shortest... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1858 - 256 pages
...bisections an arc or angle may be divided into four equal parts, intc eight, sixteen, &c. PROBLEM VI. Through a given point, to draw a straight line parallel to a given line. Let A be the given point, and BC the B Be given straight line ; it is required to draw 7through... | |
 | Samuel H. Winter - Geometrical drawing - 1859 - 56 pages
...i. 8. The construction, however, is somewhat simpler than that in Euc. i. 23. PROBLEM III. Through a point to draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line. Let MN (PI. I. Fig. 3) be the given line, P the point. With P as a centre describe a circle, cutting MN... | |
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Through a given point to draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line, Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line : it is required to draw through the point A a straight line parallel to BC. 
