 | Euclides - 1874 - 120 pages
...boundaries. 15. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17.... | |
 | Euclides - 1874 - 342 pages
...boundaries. 16. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17.... | |
 | James McCosh - Intuition - 1874 - 484 pages
...any length in a straight line ;" " There may be such a figure as a circle, that is, a plane figure such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure are equal to one another ;" and that " A circle may be described from any centre at any distance from... | |
 | Euclid, James Bryce, David Munn (F.R.S.E.) - Geometry - 1874 - 236 pages
...angles not right angles. 30. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line called the circumference; and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within it to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is called the centre of the circle. 31.... | |
 | Francis Cuthbertson - Euclid's Elements - 1874 - 400 pages
...has all its sides equal. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within'the figure to the circumference are equal. That point is called the centre of the circle, and... | |
 | Francis Cuthbertson (geometer.) - 1876 - 102 pages
...be equal in all respects. A circle is a plane figure bounded by one line, called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal. That point is called the centre, and those straight lines are called radii.... | |
 | George Elliot Voyle, G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson - English language - 1876 - 676 pages
...part of a seer. Circle — A plane figure, contained by one line which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is called the centre of the circle. Circumference,... | |
 | Robert Potts - Geometry - 1876 - 446 pages
...boundaries. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. XVL And this point i* called the center of the circle. xvn.... | |
 | Edward Atkins - 1876 - 130 pages
...boundaries. 15. A circle is a plane figure contained by one lincj which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to tho circumference are equal to one another. 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1876 - 558 pages
...bad as the common school-boy definition : " a circle is a plain figure bounded by one straight line, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point in its centre to the circumference are equal ; " but it is not what we should expect in a text-book... | |
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A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. 
