 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 sider
...similar to that of music termed the declining of a cadence. Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.... | |
 | John Playfair - 1842 - 332 sider
...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. THINGS which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another. 2. If equals be added to equals,... | |
 | Euclides - 1842 - 316 sider
...other point. II. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. III. That a circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre. IV. [Ax. XI.] V. And that if a straight line meets two straight lines, so as to make the two interior... | |
 | T H. Howe - 1842 - 458 sider
...point within the circle which is thus equally distant from the circumference, is called the Centre. HA Circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre. Illustration. The sensible horizon, or circular boundary, which every individual, standing in a clear... | |
 | Sir Edward Johnson - 1842 - 622 sider
...word which is equivalent to any one of them, must, therefore, also be equivalent to the others, since things which are equal to the same, are equal to one another. I have said that when we wish to convert a noun into a verb, we do so by prefixing the word to. Thus,... | |
 | Philip Kelland - 1843 - 168 sider
...I propose to take up the same subject, and inquire, for the sake of precision, whether the truth, " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is demonstrable or not. If it be an immediate consequence of our conception of equality, then is it... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - 1844 - 268 sider
...point. 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. 3. That any circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre. PROBLEM XVI. When the given angle is acute, the segment will be greater than a semicircle ; and when... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 348 sider
...similar to that of music termed the declining of a cadence. Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.... | |
 | George Robins Gliddon - 1844 - 92 sider
...Asiatics, the utter destruction of all biblical chronology by thia process would be another. Now, " things which are equal to •the same are equal to one another." If they are anterior to Shoopho's pyramid in Egypt, then Weroe must have been occupied in the earliest... | |
 | Euclid - 1845 - 218 sider
...other point. II. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line. III. And that a circle may be described from any centre,...which are equal to the same are equal to one another. II. If equals be added to equals, the wholes are equal. III. If equals be taken from equals, the remainders... | |
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Let it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point. 
