 | Isaac Sharpless - Geometry - 1879 - 282 pages
...DF-EFCF common/ •(I. 4), Z>CF=.ECF. Proposition 12. Problem.—To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of unlimited length, from a given point without it. Let AB be a straight line, and C a point without it. It is required to draw from C a perpendicular to AB. Take... | |
 | University of Oxford - Greek language - 1879 - 414 pages
...side of it are similar to the whole triangle and to one another. 8. Draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of unlimited length, from a given point without it. 9. If a straight line be bisected and produced to any point, the rectangle contained by the whole line... | |
 | Edward Harri Mathews - 1879 - 94 pages
...the squares on AC, A D. Christmas 1875. EUCLID. Section I. 1. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of unlimited length, from a given point without it. Through a given point within an angle BAG, to draw a line cutting off equal parts from AB, AC. 2. If... | |
 | Euclides, Frederick Burn Harvey - Geometry - 1880 - 178 pages
...above, and B in, the straight line CD. PROP. XII. PROBLEM. To draw a straight line at right angles to a given straight line of unlimited length, from...point without it. Let AB be the given straight line of unlimited length, or that which may be produced to any distance, both -ways ; and C the given point... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1880 - 426 pages
...segment. PROPOSITION 12. PROBLEM. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of an unlimited length, from a given point without it. Let AB be the given straight line, which may be produced to any length both ways, and let Cbe the given point without it : it is required... | |
 | 1880 - 160 pages
...NB — Candidates mast satisfy the Examiners in both Books. 1. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of unlimited length, from a given point without it. 2. The greater angle of every triangle is subtended by the greater side. 3. To make a triangle of which... | |
 | Elizabethan club - 1880 - 156 pages
...a 'right angle,' and a ' rhombus.' 2. Prove the problem : — To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of unlimited length from a given point without it. Show how to do this practically with a ruler and a pair of compasses. 3. If a side of a triangle be... | |
 | Euclides - Euclid's Elements - 1881 - 236 pages
...straight line. PROF. XII. PBOBLBM. To drau a straight line perpendicular to a yiven straiyht line uf unlimited length, from a given point without it. Let AB be the given straight line, which may be produce 1 to any length both ways ; and let C be a point without it. It is required to... | |
 | Institution of Surveyors (Great Britain). - Surveying - 514 pages
...be equalviz., those to which the equal sides are opposite. 3. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of unlimited length from a given point without it. 4. If a straight line falling upon two other straight lines makes the alternate angles equal to each... | |
 | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - Agriculture - 1881 - 532 pages
...equal — viz., those to which the equal sides are opposite. 3. To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of unlimited length from a given point without it. 4. If a straight line falling upon two other straight lines makes the alternate angles equal to each... | |
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To draw a straight line perpendicular to a given straight line of an unlimited length, from a given point without it. 
