 | Euclides - 1884 - 434 pages
...latter proposition is a particular case of the former. PROPOSITION 12. PROBLEM. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line from a given point without it. 0 •B Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point without it : it is required to draw... | |
 | Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1885 - 538 pages
...and C ; consequently, DA is perpendicular to BC at the given point A (BI, P. XVI., C.). PROBLEM III. To draw a perpendicular to a given straight line, from a given point without that line. Let FG be the given line, and A the given point. From A, as a centre, with a radius sufficiently... | |
 | Edinburgh Mathematical Society - Mathematics - 1887 - 316 pages
...equal to the given aperture as have been cut off from AB. 4. Euclid I. 10. Tartaglia's solution. 5. To draw a perpendicular to a given straight line from a given point outside it. Euclid I. 12. See figure 35. Let AB be the given straight line, C the given point. Join... | |
 | Edward Mann Langley, W. Seys Phillips - 1890 - 538 pages
...PROPOSITION 12. PROBLEM. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of unlimited length from a given point without it. Let AB be the given straight line which may be produced to any length both ways, and let C be the given point without it ; it is required... | |
 | Euclid, John Bascombe Lock - Euclid's Elements - 1892 - 188 pages
...Proposition 12. 78. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line from a given point witlwut it. Let AB be the given straight line and C the given point ; it is required to draw from C a straight line which shall be perpendicular to AB. Construction. On... | |
 | Euclid - Geometry - 1892 - 460 pages
...draw a straight line at right angles to a yiven. straight line, from a given point in the same. AD CEB Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point in it. It is required to draw from the point C a straight line at right angles to AB. Construction.... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1892 - 508 pages
...for any additions you may make :— (o) To bisect a given straight line ; (6) To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line from a given point without it. 17 4. Prove that case of Euclid I. 7, where the vertex of each triangle is without the other triangle.... | |
 | Henry Martyn Taylor - 1893 - 486 pages
...PROPOSITION 11. To draw a straight line at right angles to a given straight line from a given point in it. Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point in it : it is required to draw from C a straight line at right angles to^.e. CONSTRUCTION. Take any... | |
 | 1894 - 1136 pages
...that in tbe triangle '( bc, if ob be greater than ac, the angle а с b will be greater than ab с. 7. Draw a perpendicular to a given straight line from a given point without it. 8. Construct a triangle having its sides equal to three given straight lines. 9. If two straight lines... | |
 | Great Britain. Education Department. Department of Science and Art - 1894 - 894 pages
...respectively equal to the angles A, B, C of the first triangle. (10.) 8. Show how to draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line from a given point without it. An equilateral triangle and an isosceles triangle are upon the same base ;" show that the line joining... | |
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To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of an unlimited length, from a given point without it. Let AB be the given straight line, which may be produced to any length both ways, and let c be a point without it. 
