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" Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. "
Elements of Geometry: On the Basis of Dr. Brewster's Legendre : to which is ... - Page 220
by James Bates Thomson - 1844 - 237 pages
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The Elements of Euclid [book 1] for beginners, by J. Lowres

Euclides - 1852 - 48 pages
...opposite angles, is called the diagonal or diameter. POSTULATES. 1. Let it be granted that a right line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a terminated right line may be produced to any length in a right line. 3. That a circle may be described from any...
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The first two books of the Elements of Euclid, with additional figures ...

Euclides - 1852 - 152 pages
...parallel. Fig. 4. Fig. 5. Fiy. 5. has no pair of parallel sides.] 1 POSTULATES. L LET .it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. n. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. III. And that...
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The synoptical Euclid; being the first four books of Euclid's Elements of ...

Euclides - 1853 - 146 pages
...plane, and which, being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. POSTULATES. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. n. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. in. And that a...
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The first six books of the Elements of Euclid, with numerous exercises

Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 178 pages
...plane, and which, being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. POSTULATES. L 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 that...
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Orr's Circle of the Sciences: Organic nature, vols. 1-3 (1854-1856)

William Somerville Orr - Science - 1854 - 534 pages
...axiom should be a self-evident, but at the same time an indemonstrable truth. Euclid asks us to "grant that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other," from sheer necessity ; the apparent simplicity of the operation is in reality a cause of its difliculty....
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The Elements of geometry; or, The first six books, with the eleventh and ...

Euclides - 1855 - 262 pages
...is, that the space between the lines is always of the same breadth. POSTULATES. i Let it be granted, that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. When a straight line is drawn from one point to another point, the points are said to be joined. The...
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Mensuration of lines, areas, surfaces, and volumes

Robert Rawson - 1856 - 200 pages
...plane, and which being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. POSTULATES. r Let it be granted, that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. n. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. And that a circle...
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Practical carpentry, joinery, and cabinet-making [by P. Nicholson. by P ...

Peter Nicholson - Cabinetwork - 1856 - 482 pages
...POSTULATE signifies something which may be assumed as granted. Hence it may be granted, 1st, That a right line may be drawn from any one point to any other point : 2dly, That a line may be produced, that is, continued or lengthened at pleasure : 3dly, That a circle...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4

1859 - 802 pages
...commencing his artistic and scientific achievements upon the black-board, says': "Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point," I invariably answer, " Of course, — by all manner of means," — although you know, dear Don, that,...
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Elements of Geometry and Conic Sections

Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1858 - 256 pages
...line which is contained an exact number of times in each of thsm. BOOK V. PROS LEM.S. Postulates. 1. A straight line may be drawn from any one point to Any other point. 2. .A terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. From the greater of...
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