Plane geometry, with problems and applications (1910)
Slaught, H. E. (Herbert Ellsworth), 1861-1937, Lennes, N. J. (Nels Johann), 1874- joint author · Boston, Allyn and Bacon · leaf 17
irst to study geometry from a logi-cal point of view. Between 600 B.C., when Thales, a Greek from AsiaMinor, learned geometry from the Egyptians, and 300 b.c, whenEuclid, a Greek residing in Alexandria, Egypt, wrote his Elements ofGeometry, the crude, practical geometric information of the… … BECTILINEAn FIGUBES. 5 NOTATION FOR POINTS AND LINES. 7. A point is denoted by a capital letter. A straight line is denoted by two capital letters marking two of its points or by —^ S.— one small letter. The word line alone ;usually means straight line. Thus, the point A, the line AB, or the line…
Geometry, Plane
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