| Almon Ticknor - Measurement - 1849 - 156 pages
...raised and let fall by a square, or other suitable instrument. 11. Through a given point to draw a parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given line. From the point A, as a centre, with a radius greater than the shortest distance from A to BC,... | |
| Charles Davies - Trigonometry - 1849 - 372 pages
...line CD will divide the angle ACB into two equal parts. PROBLEM VI. Through a given point, to draw a parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given line. From the point A as a centre, with a radius greater than the shortest distance from A to BC,... | |
| Great Britain. Committee on Education - School buildings - 1850 - 790 pages
...Section 2. 1. Show that any two angles of a triangle are together less than two right angles. •2. Draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. 3. Show that in any risht-angled triangle, the square which is described upon the side subtending the... | |
| 1867 - 336 pages
...the other equal sides shall be parallel to one another, or be inclined at equal angles. 2. Shew how to draw a straight line through a given point, parallel to a given straight line. Determine the locus of the vertices of all equal triangles ou the same base and on the same lide of... | |
| Euclides - 1852 - 152 pages
...solids, and is called a tetrahedron."] PEOP. II. PROB. From a given point to draw a straight line equal to a given straight line. Let A be the given point,...BC the given straight line; it is required to draw from the point A a straight line equal to BC. BOOK L From the point A to B draw a the straight line... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...four equal parts, into eight, into sixteen, and so on. PEOBLEM VI. Through a given point, to draw a parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given line. From the point A as a centre, | with a radius greater than the shortest distance from A to .5(7,... | |
| Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 334 pages
...another: therefore AB is parallel (i. 27) to CD. Which was to be proved. /KH A. r / 0 D PEOP. XXXI. PEOB. To draw a straight line through, a given point parallel...BC the given straight line. It is required to draw through A a straight line parallel to BC. In BC take any point D ; EA and join AD. At the point 7 A... | |
| Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 176 pages
...therefore ab is parallel (i. 27) to Сd; / Wherefore, straight lines, &c. QED PROPOSITION XXXI.— PROBLEM. To draw a straight line through a given point...given straight line. LET a be the given point, and b С the given straight line ; it is required to draw a straight liae through the point a, parallel... | |
| Euclides - 1853 - 146 pages
...straight line AB. Which was to be done. PROP II. PROBLEM. From a given point to draw a straight line equal to a given straight line. Let A be the given point,...BC the given straight line; it is required to draw from the point A a straight line equal to BC. From the point A to B draw (Post. 1.) the straight line... | |
| Euclid, John Playfair - Geometry - 1853 - 336 pages
...described upon the given straight line AB. PROP. II. PROB. From a given point to draw a straight line equal to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight iine ; it is required to draw, from the point A, a straight line equal to BC. From the point A to B... | |
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