 | 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... | |
 | Euclides - 1860 - 288 pages
...line joining two of the opposite angular pomts of a quadrilateral 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 a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line ; 3. And... | |
 | 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 from any one point to any other point. n. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. in. And... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Geometry - 1860 - 472 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Euclides - 1862 - 140 pages
...joining two of its opposite angles. All other four-sided figures are caOed trapeziums. 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. AXIOMS.... | |
 | Euclides - 1862 - 172 pages
...as 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. AXIOMS.... | |
 | Euclides - 1863 - 122 pages
..."" POSTULATES. '1. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 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, at any distance from that centre. AXIOMS.... | |
 | Euclides - 1863 - 74 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... | |
 | Euclides - 1864 - 448 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 from any one point to any other point. II. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. m. And... | |
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LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 
