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The first six books of the Elements of Euclid, in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters .. (1847)

Euclid, Byrne, Oliver · London, W. Pickering · leaf 122

An illustration from The first six books of the Elements of Euclid, in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters .., 1847, leaf 122 — touch one ano If it be poffible, let join the centres, and not pafs through a point of contact; then from a point ofcontact draw and to the centres. Becaufe and « and - + (B. 1. pr. 20.), = (B. 1. def. 15.), = (B. i.def.15.), + , a part greater than the whole, which is abfurd. The centres are not… … NE circle can-not touch ano-ther, eitherexternally or internally, in more points than one. FIGURE III. Fig. i. For, if it be poffible, let and f j touch one another internally in two points ;draw .... i. joining their cen-tres, and produce it until it pafsthrough one of the points of contadl (B. 3.…

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