 | Isaac Todhunter - 1869 - 312 sider
...polygon which are not adjacent is also called a 15. A circle is a plane figure bounded by one lino which is called the circumference, and is such that...figure to the circumference are equal to one another: this point is called the centre of the circle. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the... | |
 | Euclides - 1870 - 270 sider
...may be drawn from any one point to any other point. DEMONSTRATION. — Def. 15. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line which is called the circumference,...lines drawn from a certain point within the figure (called the centre) to the circumferenee are equal to one another. AT. 1. Magnitudes which are equal... | |
 | Richard Wormell - 1870 - 304 sider
...Circumferences.— Use of compasses. 43. A circle is a figure contained by one line, termed the circumference, such that all straight lines drawn from a certain...within the figure to the circumference are equal. If we place one of the points of a pair of compasses upon a perfectly even board, and the compasses... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1870 - 350 sider
...allusion to it as " a plain figure contained by one line called the circumference, and such that all right lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another?" Why then should we stumble or 'be offended at the use of such terms as " Estopell," "Alimony," " Certiorari,"... | |
 | Euclides - 1871 - 136 sider
...angle. XII. A FIGURE is that which is enclosed by one or -ore boundaries. XIII. A CIRCLE is a plane figure contained by one line, -which is called the...CIRCUMFERENCE, and is such, that all straight lines drawn to the circumference from a certain point (called the CENTRE) within the figure are eqxial to one another.... | |
 | 1871 - 800 sider
...Euclid and Montucla have written in vain. According to their definition, the circumference of a circle 'is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure ,' etc. How in the world could such a point be otherwise than ' within the figure?' IB there any such... | |
 | Euclides, James Hamblin Smith - 1872 - 376 sider
...angle. XII. A FIGURE is that which is enclosed by one or •'ore boundaries. XIII. A CIRCLE is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the...CIRCUMFERENCE, and is such, that all straight lines drawn to the circumference from a certain point (called the CENTRE) within the figure are equal to one another.... | |
 | Popular educator - 1872 - 848 sider
...contained or bounded by a canal line, called the circumference or periphery, which is snch that aU straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to each other. This point Kg. 6. Fig. 7. is called the centre of the circle, and each of tho straight... | |
 | Euclid, Charles Peter Mason - 1872 - 216 sider
...XII. An acute angle is an angle which is less than a right angle. Def. XV. A circle is a plane bounded figure, contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that every point in it is at the same distance from a certain point within, which is called the centre.... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 588 sider
...more boundaries. , XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, called the circumference, such that all straight lines drawn from a certain...to the circumference are equal to one another. XVI. This point is called the centre. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the... | |
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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 : XVI. 
