 | 1858 - 402 pages
...figure, contained by one line, selfinterest, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all lines drawn from a certain point within the figure, to the circumference (i,e., all motives, from the highest to the lowest men), are equal to one another. Sometimes a circle... | |
 | Robert Potts - Geometry, Plane - 1860 - 380 pages
...is enclosed by one or more boundaries. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all...to one another. XVI. And this point is called the center of the circle. xvn. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the center, and... | |
 | Euclides - 1860 - 288 pages
...which it is compared, is called its area. 17. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. 18. This point is called the centre of the circle, as C. Any other point within the circle is an eccentric... | |
 | James McCosh - History - 1860 - 512 pages
...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 from a certain point within the figure are equal to one another;" and that "A circle may be described from any centre at any distance from... | |
 | James Smith - Circle-squaring - 1861 - 292 pages
...imagine," is a plane figure, enclosed by one line, which is called the circumference of the circle, it is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. This point within the figure is called the centre of the circle. A straight line drawn through the... | |
 | Euclides - 1861 - 464 pages
...is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all st. lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. Ax. 1. Things which are equal to the same thing, are equal to one another. Def. 7, IV. A st. line is... | |
 | Euclides - 1862 - 172 pages
...is enclosed by one or more boundaries. XV. IA circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all...this point is called the centre of the circle. XVII. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off... | |
 | Henry Aldrich - 1862 - 380 pages
...appeal to the intuition. So also the definition, that " a circle is a figure contained by one line which is called the circumference, and is such that all...figure to the circumference are equal to one another," involves the assumption that a line so drawn as to be always equally distant from a given point will... | |
 | Euclides - 1862 - 140 pages
...is inclosed by one or more boundaries. 15. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17. A diameter of a circle is a straight line... | |
 | Euclides - 1863 - 74 pages
...plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference (circvmferri; to carry round), and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point ivithiu the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. Any portion of a circumference is... | |
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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. 
