 | Abel Flint - 1804 - 216 pages
...itself indivisible. 2. A Line has length but no breadth. 3. A Superficies or Surface, called also Area, has length and breadth, but no thickness. 4. A Solid...the shortest that can be drawn between two Points. 6. The inclination of two Lines meeting one another, or the opening between them, is called an Angle.... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 1806 - 484 pages
...extremities of a line are points, as the extremtties of the line AB are the points A and B. figures 1 and 2. 5. A right line is the shortest that can be drawn between any two points, as the line AB. fig. 1. but if it be not the shortest, it is then called a curve line,... | |
 | Abel Flint - 1808 - 190 pages
...itself indivisible. 2. A Line has length but no breadth. 3. A Superficies or Surface, called also Area, has length and breadth, but no thickness. 4. A Solid...5. A Right Line is the shortest that can be drawn betAveen two Points. 6. The inclination of two Lines meeting one another, or the opening between them,... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 1808 - 488 pages
...extremities of a line are points, as the extremities of the line AB are the points A and B. figures 1 and 2. 5. A right line is the shortest that can be drawn between any two points, as the line AB. fig. 1. but if it be not the shortest, it is then Called a curve line,... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 1811 - 592 pages
...extremities of a line are points, as the extremities of the line AB are the points A and B. figures 1 and 2. 5. A right line is, the shortest that can be drawn between any two points, as the line AB. fig. 1. but if it be not the skortest, it is then called a curve line,... | |
 | Abel Flint - 1813 - 212 pages
...Line has length but no breadth. 3 A Superficies or Surface, called also Area, has length and bre-idth, but no thickness. 4. A Solid has length, breadth and...Line is the shortest that can be drawn between two Points.6. The inclination of two Lines meeting one another, or the opening between them, is called... | |
 | Caleb Alexander - 1813 - 152 pages
...curved line. As, A^-^B 6. Superficies, or surface, is length and breadth, without any thickness. 7. The inclination of two lines, meeting one another, or the opening between them is called an angle. As, ^ 8. If a right line fall upon another, so as to incline to neither side, and making the angles... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 1814 - 562 pages
...extremities of a line are points, as the extremities of the line AB are the points^4 and B. figures 1 and 2. 5. A right line is the shortest that can be drawn "between any two points, as the \\neAB. fig. 1. but if it be not the shortest, it is then called a curve line,... | |
 | Abel Flint - 1818 - 184 pages
...itself indivisible. 2. A Line has length but no breadth. 3. A Superficies or Surface, called also Area, has length and breadth, but no thickness. 4. A Solid...the shortest that can be drawn between two Points. 6. The inclination of two Lines meeting one another, or the opening between them, is called an Angle.... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 1818 - 500 pages
...4. The extremities of a line are points, as the extremities of the line AB are the points A and B. 5. A right line is the shortest that . can be drawn between any two points, as the line A - B. If it be not the shortest, it is then called a curve line, as AB.... | |
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