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" To draw a straight line at right angles to a given straight line, from a given point in the same. Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point in it : it is required to draw from the point C a straight line at right angles to AB. "
Elementary text book for young surveyors and levellers - Page 8
by Henry James Castle - 1856 - 185 pages
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Geometrical Problems Deducible from the First Six Books of Euclid, Arranged ...

Miles Bland - Euclid's Elements - 1819 - 444 pages
...circle which shall pass through a given point, have a given radius, and touch a given straight line. Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point through which the circle must pass. In AB take any point B ; and from it draw BD at right angles to...
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Geometrical Problems Deducible from the First Six Books of Euclid, Arranged ...

Miles Bland - Euclid's Elements - 1819 - 442 pages
...circle which shall pass through a given point, have a given radius, and touch a given straight line. Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point through which the circle must pass. In AB take any point B ; and from it draw BD at right angles to...
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The new practical gager

Matthew Iley - 1820 - 512 pages
...PROBLEM IV. To draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line, through a given point without it. Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point without it. FC In AB take any point D, and draw the straight line CD. Then from C and D as centres...
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A popular and practical treatise on masonry and stone-cutting

Peter Nicholson - Masonry - 1828 - 276 pages
...required. PROBLEM III. From a given point out of a straight line to let fall a perpendicular. Fig. 3. Let AB be the given straight line, and c the given point ; it is required to draw a straight line from c perpendicular to AB. From c, as a centre, with any...
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The Element of Geometry

John Playfair - Geometry - 1836 - 148 pages
...PROB. To draw a straight line at right angles to a given straight line, from a given point in the same. Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point in it ; it is required to draw a straight line from C, at right angles to AB. Take D E any point D...
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The First Six and the Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Euclid's Elements: With ...

Euclid, James Thomson - Geometry - 1837 - 410 pages
...XXXI. PROB. To draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line through a given point without it. Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point ; it is required to draw a straight line through C, parallel to AB. .j In AB take any point D, and...
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The First Six, and the Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Euclid's Elements: With ...

Euclid, James Thomson - Geometry - 1845 - 382 pages
...XXXI. PROB. — To draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line through a given point without it. Let AB be the given straight line, and C the given point ; it is required to draw a straight lme through C, parallel to AB. In AB take any point D, and join...
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Practical Masonry, Or, A Theoretical and Operative Treatise of Building ...

Edward Shaw - Masonry - 1846 - 342 pages
...required. PROBLEM III. From a given point out of a straight line to let fall a perpendicular. Fig. 3. Let AB be the given straight line, and c the given point ; it is required to draw a straight line from c, perpendicular to A B. From с, as a centre, with any...
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An Epitome of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, with Improved Lunar Tables ...

Janet Taylor - Nautical astronomy - 1851 - 674 pages
...IV. To draw a straight line at right angles to a given straight line, from a given point in the same. Let AB be the given straight line, and c \ the given point. From the point c, and with any convenient distance less than CA or CB, describe the arc EF. From E and F...
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The Elements of Euclid, books i-vi; xi. 1-21; xii. 1,2; ed. by H.J. Hose, Book 1

Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 334 pages
...PEOB. To draw a straight line at right angles to a given straight line from a given point in the same. Let AB be the given straight line, and c the given point in it. It is required to draw from the point ca straight line at right angles to AB. The given point...
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