 | John Playfair - Geometry - 1837 - 332 pages
...figure, without any reference to the nature of the line or lines which bound it. 11. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the...circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certaia point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. 12. And this point... | |
 | Euclid - Geometry - 1837 - 410 pages
...parallelogram which has not its adjacent sides equal, nor its angles right angles. 30. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight Q y lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to K/^>~^0 the circumference are equal to one... | |
 | James Thomson (LL.D.) - Arithmetic - 1837 - 294 pages
...line passing through two of its remote angles. XVII. A CIRCLE is a figure contained on a flat surface, by one line which is called the CIRCUMFERENCE; and is such that all straight lines drawn to the circumference from a certain point within the figure, called the CENTRE, are equal to each other.... | |
 | Robert Simson - Geometry - 1838 - 434 pages
...thing." XIV. A figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the...And this point is called the centre of the circle. xvn. . A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways... | |
 | Euclides - 1838 - 264 pages
...right angle. XI. A figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. XII. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the...drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circum ference, are equal to one another. XIII. And this point is called the centre of the circle,.... | |
 | John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1842 - 332 pages
...without any reference to the nature of the line or lines which bound it.m 1 1 . A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another . 12. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 13. A diameter of a circle is a straight line... | |
 | T H. Howe - 1842 - 462 pages
...straight line, the straight line will lie altogether in that surface or plane. FA Circle is a plane figure, contained by one line which is called the...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. c That point within the circle which is thus equally distant from the circumference, is called the... | |
 | Euclides - 1842 - 320 pages
...right angle. XIV. A figure is that which is inclosed by one or more boundaries. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line which is called the circumference,...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. XVL This point is called the centre of the circle. XVII, A diameter of a circle is a straight line... | |
 | William Pease - Geometry - 1843 - 80 pages
...geometrically, that only is a figure, which has either superficial or solid content. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the...And this point is called the centre of the circle. A circle is the superficies or space enclosed by its circumference. 14. A great circle is that plane... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1845 - 434 pages
...figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. 14. A circle is a plain figure bounded by one line, which is called the circumference, and...all straight lines drawn from a certain point within it to the circumference are equal to one another; 15. And this point is called the centre. 16. The... | |
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A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another : XVI. 
