| Edward Mann Langley, W. Seys Phillips - 1890 - 538 sider
...has no magnitude. 2. A Line is length without treadth. 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... | |
| Paul Carus - 1893 - 254 sider
...tendency to regard the path of a ray of light as the prototype of straight lines in geom* Euclid says : "A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points." etry. The fact, however, is that light does not travel in straight lines or on paths of shortest time,... | |
| Thomas Aloysius O'Donahue - 1896 - 186 sider
...length, breadth, nor thickness. A line is length without breadth. The extremities of a line are points. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points, and is the shortest distance between any two points, as AB (Fig. 16). CHAP. Ill II same straight line,... | |
| Augustus De Morgan - 1898 - 316 sider
...treatises on that subject. A point is defined to be that "which has no parts, and which has no magnitude"; a straight line is that which " lies evenly between its extreme points." Now, let any one ask himself whether he could have guessed what was meant, if, before he began geometry,... | |
| Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley - 1898 - 680 sider
...there may be a beauty in an erection which reminds you in perpetuity of the great Euclidian truth that a straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points, but at times it puts one in sober mood to think all the touches of a past time are to fade away, and... | |
| Euclid, Henry Sinclair Hall, Frederick Haller Stevens - 1900 - 330 sider
...breadth. 3. The extremities of a line are points, and the intersection of two lines is a point. 4. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. Any portion cut off from a straight line is called a segment of it. 5. A surface (or superficies) is... | |
| Euclid - 1904 - 488 sider
...breadth. 3. The extremities of a line are points, and the intersection of two lines is a point. / 4. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. Any portion cut off from a straight line is called a segment of it. 5. A surface (or superficies) is... | |
| Joseph H. Rose - 1906 - 340 sider
...DEFINITIONS OF PLANE FIGURES. A line is length without breadth. The extremities of a line are points. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. A plane surface is that in which any two points, being taken, the straight line between them lies wholly... | |
| William Hughes - 1908 - 942 sider
...: ie a point indicates position only A Line is length without breadth. Its extremities are points. A Straight Line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. A Plane is that which has only length and breadth, and is such that any two points being given, a straight... | |
| Hastings Berkeley - 1910 - 279 sider
...Geometry, Part I/ in the Encyclopaedia Britannica,1 when he remarks that ' Euclid's Definition 4, 1 — A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points — must be meaningless to any one who has not the notion of straightness in his mind/ And the remark... | |
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