 | Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1880 - 426 pages
...,~" " r ' . .' </ 2. A line is length without breadth. 3. The extremities of a line are points. 4. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. 5. A superficies is that which has only length and breadth. 6. The extremities of a superficies are... | |
 | Euclides, Frederick Burn Harvey - Geometry - 1880 - 178 pages
...letters, placed on the line, or at its extremities. A" B 3. THE EXTREMITIES of a line are points. 4. A STRAIGHT LINE is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. This is sometimes called a right line. 5. A SUPERFICIES is that which has only length and breadth.... | |
 | Education - 1882 - 676 pages
...juice, which is collected in troughs and put into casks. Pitch and tar also got from the fir. Euclid. I. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. A plane superficies is that in which, any two points being taken, the straight line between them lies... | |
 | Marianne Nops - 1882 - 278 pages
...magnitude." 2. ' A line is length without breadth.' 3. ' The extremities of a line are points.' 4. ' A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points.' 5. 'A superficies or surface is that which has only length and breadth.' G. ' The extremities of a... | |
 | Euclid, Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1883 - 428 pages
...has no magnitude. 2. A line is length without breadth. 3. The extremities of a line are points. 4. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. 5. A superficies is that which has only length and breadth. 6. The extremities of a superficies are... | |
 | Euclides - 1884 - 214 pages
...that point. BOOK I. DEFINITIONS. I. A point is that which has no parts, or which has no magnitude. IL A line is length, without breadth. III. The extremities...its extreme points. V. A superficies is that which has only length and breadth. VI. The extremities of a superficies are lines. VII. A plane superficies... | |
 | Stewart W. and co - 1884 - 272 pages
...no magnitude. II. A line is length without breadth. III. Points are the extremities of a line. TV. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. V. A superficies has only length and breadth. VI. The extremities of a superficies are lines. VII. A plain superficies... | |
 | Stewart W. and co - 1884 - 146 pages
...ABS. EUCLID. SECTION L Define a straight line — a rhombus. Write out the 12th axiom of Euclid. 1. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. 2. A rhombus is a four-sided figure which has all its sides equal, but its angles are not right angles.... | |
 | Euclides - 1884 - 182 pages
...redundant. 3. LINES. 2. A line is length without breadth. 3. The extremities of a line are points. 4. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. A physical line has breadth, however little, and even some thickness or depth ; we could not sec its... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1887 - 720 pages
...beget within a lover of the beautiful in nature an uncontrollable desire to enter. The definition of a straight line is " that which lies evenly between its extreme points," or "the shortest distance between two extreme points." Fidelity to this definition guides most persons... | |
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A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. 
