| Pierce Morton - Geometry - 1830 - 584 pages
...piece of paper for a plane, with a pen,* a ruler, and a pair of compasses, it is evident, that, first, a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point ; 2ndly, a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line ; 3dly, from the... | |
| Euclid - 1835 - 540 pages
...are in the same plane, and which being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. 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. III. And that... | |
| Mathematics - 1835 - 684 pages
...of paper for a plane, •with a pen,* a ruler, and a pair of compasses, it is evident, that, first, a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point ; 2ndly, a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line ; 3dly, from the... | |
| Andrew Bell - Euclid's Elements - 1837 - 290 pages
...are in the same plane, and which, being produced eyer i so far both ways, do not meet. POSTULATES. 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, and with any radius. AXIOMS. 1. Things which... | |
| Euclid, James Thomson - Geometry - 1837 - 410 pages
...supplementary. So also are two angles which are together equal to two right angles. POSTULATES.* 1. Let it be granted, that a straight line may be drawn from any one point, to any other point :.). writers rather improperly use urcb) and chord receive their names from the bow (in Latin arcvs),... | |
| Euclides - 1838 - 264 pages
...are in the same plane, and which, being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. V POSTULATES. 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. III. Anil that... | |
| Robert Simson - Geometry - 1838 - 434 pages
...are in the same plane, and which being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. 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 at straight line. III. And that... | |
| Euclides - 1840 - 192 pages
...straight line joining the opposite angles of a quadrilateral figure is called a DIAGONAL.] POSTULATES. 1. Let it be granted, that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. That any terminated straight line may be produced or continued to any length in a straight line.... | |
| Euclides - Geometry - 1841 - 378 pages
...are in the same plane, and which, however far produced either way, do not meet. B 2 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. Ill And that... | |
| Charles Bray - Cooperation - 1841 - 694 pages
...no magnitude." " A line is length without breadth."* " Let it be granted," says the mathematician, " that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point," that is, from that which has no parts and no magnitude, to that which has no parts and no magnitude;... | |
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