 | Euclid, Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1867 - 426 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...figure to the circumference are equal to one another : 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17. A diameter of a circle is a straight line... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1868 - 434 pages
...thing. xrv. 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 tie figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the center... | |
 | Septimus Tebay - Measurement - 1868 - 168 pages
...a right angle. 11. 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. 12. And this point is called the centre of the circle... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Measurement - 1869 - 312 pages
...called a 15. A circle is a plane figure bounded by one lino which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain...another: this point is called the centre of the circle. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. A diameter of a... | |
 | Richard Wormell - Geometry, Plane - 1870 - 304 pages
...Circumferences.— Use of compasses. 43. A circle is a figure contained by one line, termed the circumference, such that all straight lines drawn from a certain...within the figure to the circumference are equal. If we place one of the points of a pair of compasses upon a perfectly even board, and the compasses... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - Education, Higher - 1870 - 350 pages
...allusion to it as " a plain figure contained by one line called the circumference, and such that all right lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another?" Why then should we stumble or 'be offended at the use of such terms as " Estopell," "Alimony," " Certiorari,"... | |
 | 1871 - 800 pages
...Euclid and Montucla have written in vain. According to their definition, the circumference of a circle 'is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure ,' etc. How in the world could such a point be otherwise than ' within the figure?' IB there any such... | |
 | Popular educator - 1872 - 848 pages
...contained or bounded by a canal line, called the circumference or periphery, which is snch that aU straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to each other. This point Kg. 6. Fig. 7. is called the centre of the circle, and each of tho straight... | |
 | Henry Major - Student teachers - 1873 - 588 pages
...more boundaries. , XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, called the circumference, such that all straight lines drawn from a certain...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. XVI. This point is called the centre. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through... | |
 | Lewis Sergeant - 1873 - 182 pages
...four straight lines. 34. A circle is a figure contained by one line, called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the circle to the circumference are equal to each other. 35. This point is called the centre of the circle;... | |
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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. 
