| Euclides - 1874 - 120 pages
...parallelogram. 3. A Trapezium is a quadrilateral which has two of its sides parallel. POSTULATES. 1. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. And that a... | |
| Euclides - 1874 - 342 pages
...diameter, or the diagonal, is the straight line joining two of its opposite angles. POSTULATES. 1. LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. And that a... | |
| Edward Atkins - 1874 - 426 pages
...joining two of its opposite angles. All other four-sided figures are called trapeziums. Postulates. 1. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. And that a... | |
| Francis Cuthbertson - Euclid's Elements - 1874 - 400 pages
...lines are 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... | |
| William Alexander Myers - Circle-squaring - 1874 - 207 pages
...db 1/JK 2 — - cos. 2J.t And cos. JL === ± 1/12 2 — sin. 2A POSTULATES. Let it be granted : 1. That a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. And that a... | |
| Euclid, James Bryce, David Munn (F.R.S.E.) - Geometry - 1874 - 236 pages
...subtended by this arc is hence called an angls of ninety degrees. POSTULATES. Let it be granted — 1. That a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. That a circle... | |
| 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... | |
| Robert Potts - Geometry - 1876 - 446 pages
...parallel: and the diameter, or the 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... | |
| Edward Atkins - 1876 - 130 pages
...joining two of its opposite angles. All other four-sided figures are called trapeziums. Postulates. 1. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. And that a... | |
| 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... | |
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