| Robert Potts - Geometry - 1876 - 446 pages
...diagonal is the straight line 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. n. . That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in » straight line. in. And that... | |
| Richard Wormell - 1876 - 268 pages
...point of bisection. 3. An angle has one and only one bisector. POSTULATES. Let it be granted that 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. A circle may be described... | |
| Association for the improvement of geometrical teaching - Geometry, Modern - 1876 - 66 pages
...finite straight line has one and only one point of bisection. POSTULATES. Let it be granted that 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. A circle may be described... | |
| Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1877 - 458 pages
...into three equal parts ; to find two mean proportionals between two given lines, etc. 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... | |
| George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1877 - 436 pages
...to all its parts taken together. 47. POSTULATES. Let it be granted — 1. That a straight line can be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a straight line can be produced to any distance, or can be terminated at any point. 3. That the circumference... | |
| James Maurice Wilson - 1878 - 450 pages
...point of bisection. 4. An angle has one and only one bisector. POSTULATES. Let it be granted that i. 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. A circle may be described... | |
| Euclides, Frederick Burn Harvey - Geometry - 1880 - 178 pages
...the same plane, and which, being continually produced, never meet. POSTULATES. 1. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. That a circle... | |
| English periodicals - 1880 - 790 pages
...has its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere. Let it be granted, says the first postulate, that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point ; the second says, let it be granted that any finite line may be produced to any distance in the same... | |
| George Albert Wentworth - Geometry, Modern - 1881 - 266 pages
...to all its parts taken together. 47. POSTULATES. Let it be granted — 1. That a straight line can be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a straight line can be produced to any distance, or can be terminated at any point. 3. That the circumference... | |
| Marianne Nops - 1882 - 278 pages
...the word is translated in the old editions of Euclid, come next. In the first three Euclid asks : — 1. ' That a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other.' 2. ' That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line.' 3. ' That a... | |
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