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" LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. "
Mensuration of lines, areas, surfaces, and volumes - Page xv
by Robert Rawson - 1856
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Plane and Solid Geometry: To which is Added Plane and Spherical Trigonometry ...

George Roberts Perkins - Geometry - 1856 - 460 pages
...XIV. Straight lines which are parallel to the same line are parallel to each other. POSTULATES. I. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any point to any other point. II. That a terminated straight line may be produced, in either direction,...
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Practical carpentry, joinery, and cabinet-making [by P. Nicholson. by P ...

Peter Nicholson - Cabinetwork - 1856 - 482 pages
...POSTULATE signifies something which may be assumed as granted. Hence it may be granted, 1st, That a right line may be drawn from any one point to any other point : 2dly, That a line may be produced, that is, continued or lengthened at pleasure : 3dly, That a circle...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4

American essays - 1859 - 802 pages
...in his hand, before commencing his artistic and scientific achievements upon the black-board, says': "Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point," I invariably answer, " Of course, — by all manner of means," — although you know, dear Don, that,...
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Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry from the Works of A. M. Legendre ...

Adrien Marie Legendre, Charles Davies - Geometry - 1857 - 442 pages
...being applied the one to the other, coincide throughout their whole extent, are equal POSTULATES. 1. Let it be granted, that a straight line may be drawn from one point to another point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be prolonged, iu a straight line,...
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Gradations in Euclid : books i. and ii., with an explanatory preface [&c ...

Euclides - 1858 - 248 pages
...straight line are 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 that...
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Elements of Geometry and Conic Sections

Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1858 - 256 pages
...line which is contained an exact number of times in each of thsm. BOOK V. PROS LEM.S. Postulates. 1. A straight line may be drawn from any one point to Any other point. 2. .A terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. From the greater...
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Euclid's Elements of Geometry: Chiefly from the Text of Dr. Simson, with ...

Robert Potts - Geometry, Plane - 1860 - 380 pages
...the diameter, or the diagonal is the straight line joining two of its opposite angles. POSTULATES. I. LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn...may be produced to any length in a straight line. in. And that a circle may be described from any center, at any distance from that center. X AXIOMS....
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The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated

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 as...
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Plane and Solid Geometry: To which is Added Plane and Spherical Trigonometry ...

George Roberts Perkins - Geometry - 1860 - 474 pages
...XIV. Straight lines which are parallel to the same line are parallel to each other. POSTULATES. I. Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any point to any other point. II. That a terminated straight line may be produced, in either direction,...
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Euclid's plane geometry, books iii.-vi., practically applied; or, Gradations ...

Euclides - 1861 - 464 pages
...PROP. 1. — PROK. To find the centre of a given circle. SOL. — Pst. 1. Let it be granted that a st. line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 10, I. To bisect a given finite st. line. 11, I. To draw a st. line at rt.¿s to a given st. line from...
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