| Andrew Bell - Euclid's Elements - 1837 - 290 pages
...are such as 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-...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... | |
| 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
...TRAPEZIUM. [The straight line joining the opposite angles of a quadrilateral figure is called a DIAGONAL.] POSTULATES. 1. Let it be granted, that a straight...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. • 3.... | |
| 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;... | |
| Charles Bray - Cooperation - 1841 - 326 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;... | |
| Euclides - 1842 - 316 pages
...trapezium having two, only, of its sides parallel to one another is now called a trapezoid. 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. That a circle... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 938 pages
...be done, or to be imagined to be done. The postulates given by Euclid are the following : — 1 . Л line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 2. A line may be produced (that is, continued or lengthened) at pleasure to any length. 3. A circle may... | |
| John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1842 - 332 pages
...lines are such as are in the same plane, and which, being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. POSTULATES. 1. LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawA from any one point to any other point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to... | |
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