 | James McCosh - History - 1860 - 512 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... | |
 | Euclides - 1862 - 140 pages
...opposite angles. All other four-sided figures are caOed 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. AXIOMS.... | |
 | Euclides - 1863 - 122 pages
...terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 1. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 3. And that a circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre. AXIOMS.... | |
 | Euclides - 1863 - 74 pages
...necessary to fix the position of a plane." — Pott's Euclid, p. 44. 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... | |
 | Euclides - 1864 - 448 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. II. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. m. And... | |
 | Euclides - 1865 - 80 pages
...for drawing a straight line from the one of them to the other. POSTULATES. 1. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That a straight line may be produced in a straight line to any required length. 3. That a... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1865 - 528 pages
...diagonal is a straight linn 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 a straight line. m. And... | |
 | Euclides - 1865 - 402 pages
...plane, and which being prodnced ever so far both ways do not meet. POSTULATES. L Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. IL That a terminated straight line may be prodnced to any length in a straight line. HI. And... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1866 - 172 pages
...the straight line joining the vertices of two 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... | |
 | Walter Marsham Adams - 1866 - 114 pages
...straight lines or circles, and we can only assume the power. " Let it be granted," says Euclid, " that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point," and " that a circle may be described," &c. As it is impossible to learn to swim without going... | |
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LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 
