...they meet a third line, make the alternate angles with it equal, Eu~; cljj assumée this axiom : " If a straight line meets two straight ' lines, so as to make the two interior angle's on the same side ' of it .less than two right angles, these straight lines, being CQniinfwtly...

...Tvio strzLJ?ht lilies canncrt inclose a spare. XI. All riirfct angles are equal to one another. XII. " If a straight line meets two straight lines, so as to make " the two Lriterior angles on the same ade of it taken to" gether less than two right angles, these straight...

...Euclid's Elements. When it is asserted, for example, that " if one straight line falls on two 'other straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side together equal to two righl angles, these two straight lines, though indefinitely produced, will never...

...Euclid's Elements. When it is asserted, for example, that " if one straight line falls on two other straight lines, so as to make :' the two interior angles on the same side together equal to tw.% * Philosophical Essays, pp. 94, ?5, 4to edit. " right angles, these two straight...

...subjoined the following corollary, viz., " It follows from this, that if two lines are cut by a third line, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, these lines produced will meet, and form a triangle ;" from a slight examination,...

...Euclid's Elements. When it is asserted, for example, that " if one straight line falls on two other straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side together equal to two right angles, these two straight lines, though indefinitely produced, will never...

...Euclid's Elements. When it is asserted, for example, that " if one straight line falls on two other straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side together equal to two right angles, these two straight lines, though indefinitely produced, will never...

...proposition Legendre is enabled to demonstrate Euclid's twelfth axiom, viz. ; If a straight line meet two straight lines so as to make the two interior angles on the same side \T> HAUM T> of it, taken together, less than two right angles, these straight lines being continually...

...self-evident propositions. It is therefore removed from among the Axioms. The 12th Axiom of Euclid is, that " if a straight line meets two straight "lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the•same side of it taken " together less than two right angles, these straight lines being continually...

...Axioms, and that which was before the llth, is accounted the 10th. The 12th Axiom of Euclid is, that " if a straight line " meets two straight lines, so as to make the two inte" rior angles on the same side of it taken together less " than two right angles, these straight...