 | William Pease - Geometry - 1843 - 80 pages
...poles, the lineal length of each degree of longitude, depends upon its distance from the equator. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained... | |
 | Philip Kelland - Algebra - 1843 - 168 pages
...therefore it appears not to be inconsistent with the Elements to adopt it in the former case too. • 14. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. Euclid adds, " which divides the circle into... | |
 | Euclid - Geometry - 1845 - 218 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained... | |
 | Euclides - 1845 - 546 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained... | |
 | Great Britain. Admiralty - Geometry - 1846 - 128 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both way s XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the... | |
 | Euclides - 1846 - 292 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another : xvi. And this point is called the centre of the circle. xvn. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. xvin. A semicircle is the figure contained by... | |
 | Great Britain. Admiralty - Geometry - 1846 - 128 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both wa\s XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a, dia-meter and the... | |
 | Euclid, John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1846 - 334 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. 12. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 13. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 14. A semicircle is the figure contained by... | |
 | Dennis M'Curdy - Geometry - 1846 - 166 pages
...circumference of a circle : therefore all radii of the same or equal circles are equal to one another. 16. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre to the circumference on either side ; — of a parallelogram is that straight line which joins... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Geometry - 1847 - 248 pages
...a straight line drawn from the center to any point on the surface. The diameter or axis of a sphere is a straight line drawn through the center, and terminated both ways by the surface. It appears from Def. 1 that all the radii of the same sphere are equal, and that all the diameters... | |
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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 : 16. And this point is called the centre... 
