Volume 2

The elements of Euclid explain'd. In a new, but most easie method, together with the use of every proposition through all parts of the mathematicks / Written in French, by that exccellent [sic] mathematician F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales ... And now carefully done into English. And purg'd from a multitude of errors, which had escap'd in the original.

Euclid

Date:: 1685

Credit: The elements of Euclid explain'd. In a new, but most easie method, together with the use of every proposition through all parts of the mathematicks / Written in French, by that exccellent [sic] mathematician F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales ... And now carefully done into English. And purg'd from a multitude of errors, which had escap'd in the original. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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αἱ μπω πε SONDE RON GRR VA GE όλ DEFINITIONS. 1. Thofe Circles are equal” whofe diameters or femidiamn) ., cers are equal. +} | à 2. Alineisfaid το touch a cri) A B cle, when, Meeting with its ci cumference, it does not cut its |) the line AB. ap 3, Circles. touch). when meeting, they} not cut eachother, jj che circles A,B,anddj A —~C 4. Thofe lines are equally mote from the center; when che jg7 pendiculars, drawn from the cer}; to the lines, are equal. ‘* Asi] D ‘example, If EF, and EG, perp), € diculars to the lines AB, and (4) “be equal, AB and CD will be equally rem} “from the center ; becaufe the diftance ου) 6 always cobe meafur'd by perpendicular Hill Du anc ot

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