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" Parallel straight lines are such as are in the same plane, and which being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. "
A Treatise on Surveying, Containing the Theory and Practice: To which is ... - Page 26
by John Gummere - 1814 - 346 pages
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Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Volume 23

Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society (Chapel Hill, N.C.) - Natural history - 1907 - 212 pages
...those who sought to substitute a new definition of parallels for Euclid's, which reads (I, Def . 35) : ''''Parallel straight lines are such as are in the...which being produced ever so far both ways do not meet.'1'' To cite a few classic definitions, Wolf, Boscovich, and T. Simpson use the following: "Straight...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

Physics - 1853 - 1068 pages
...Alumina . . . 31-87 Glucina . . . 21-43 Peroxide of iron . 1-31 Peroxide of tin . •35 " Parallel right lines are such as are in the same plane, and which, being produced continually in both directions, would never meet." Adopting this definition, we are forced to give...
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The popular educator, Volume 2

Popular educator - 1860 - 424 pages
...figure Is called a trapezoid. XXXV. Parallel straight lines are __ such as are in the sameplane, _ and which being produced ever so far both ways do not meet. The meaning of this definition le, that the space between the .ines Is always of the same breadth....
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