| Walter Marsham Adams - 1866 - 114 pages
...drawing straight lines or circles, and we can only assume the power. " Let it be granted," says Euclid, " that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point," and " that a circle may be described," &c. As it is impossible to learn to swim without going into... | |
| William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 1090 pages
...something to be assumed, or taken for granted. Euclid lias constructed his Elements on the three following postulates: 1. That a straight line may be drawn from...to any other point. 2. That a terminated straight lino may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. That a circle may be described from any centre... | |
| Robert Potts - 1868 - 434 pages
...diagonal is the straight liue joining two of its opposite angles. POSTULATES. I. LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. IL That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. m. AXIOMS. I.... | |
| James Smith - 1870 - 634 pages
...(Prop. I, Book 1) should be based upon the simplest of the postulates, viz. : " Let it be granted, that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point" Thus, Euclid begins by showing us how to construct an equilateral triangle. There can be no doubt that... | |
| Euclides - 1871 - 136 pages
...construction of figures and the properties of geometrical mag--tudes. POSTULATES. Let it be granted I. 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. That a circle... | |
| Elias Loomis - Geometry - 1871 - 302 pages
...which is contained an exact number of times in each of them. BOOK V PROBLEMS Postulates. 1 A a'.raight 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... | |
| Euclides, James Hamblin Smith - Geometry - 1872 - 376 pages
...construction of figures and the prqperties pf geometrical magnitudes. POSTULATES. Let it be granted I. 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. That a circle... | |
| Henry Major - Student teachers - 1873 - 580 pages
...plane, and which, being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. POSTULATES. I. 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. That a circle... | |
| Francis Cuthbertson - Euclid's Elements - 1874 - 400 pages
...points. A straight line is one which lies evenly between its extremities. It is taken for granted : That a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point; And also that a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. A superficies... | |
| James McCosh - Intuition - 1874 - 484 pages
...definitions and in the propositions founded on them, such as the following, put in the form of maxims : "A straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point ;" "A straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line ;" " There may be such a figure... | |
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