| James McCosh - Intuition - 1874 - 484 pages
...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 as a circle, that is, a plane figure such that all straight lines drawn... | |
| Edward Atkins - 1876 - 130 pages
...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 that a circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre. Axioms. lual... | |
| Richard Wormell - 1876 - 268 pages
...POSTULATES. Let it be granted that 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. A circle may be described from any centre, with a radius equal to any finite straight line. THEOREMS... | |
| Association for the improvement of geometrical teaching - Geometry, Modern - 1876 - 66 pages
...POSTULATES. Let it be granted that 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. A circle may be described from any centre, with a radius equal to any finite straight line. SECTION... | |
| Robert Potts - Geometry - 1876 - 446 pages
...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 » straight line. in. And that a circle may be described from any center, at any distance from that... | |
| Edward Atkins - 1877 - 72 pages
...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 that a circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre. Axioms. 1.... | |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - English language - 1877 - 854 pages
...drawn from one point to another. 2. That a straight line may be produced to any required length. 3. That a circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre. Lat. postulatorius, postulutum, postulare (poseo, to demand). Poetare, pSs'.tchur, attitude, position;... | |
| Euclides - 1877 - 58 pages
...Let it be granted : 1. That a straight line may be drawn from any point to any other point. 2. That a straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. That a circle may be described with any centre, and at any distance from that centre. AXIOMS. 1.... | |
| Āryabhaṭa - 1878 - 100 pages
...the anticedent terms are called homologous to one another, as also the consequents to one another. AXIOMS. I. Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another. II. If the same thing be added to equals, or equals be added to equals, the wholes are equal. III. If the... | |
| James Maurice Wilson - 1878 - 450 pages
...POSTULATES. Let it be granted that i. 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. A circle may be described from any centre, with a radius equal to any finite straight line. It will... | |
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