The elements of Euclid, explained and demonstrated in a new and most easie method with the uses of each proposition in all the parts of the mathematicks / by Claude Francois Milliet D'Chales, a Jesuit ; done out of French, corrected and augmented, and illustrated with nine copper plates, and the effigies of Euclid, by Reeve Williams ...
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The elements of Euclid, explained and demonstrated in a new and most easie method with the uses of each proposition in all the parts of the mathematicks / by Claude Francois Milliet D'Chales, a Jesuit ; done out of French, corrected and augmented, and illustrated with nine copper plates, and the effigies of Euclid, by Reeve Williams ...
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Dechales, Claude-François Milliet, 1621-1678.
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London :: Printed for Philip Lea ...,
1685.
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Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematical analysis.
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"The elements of Euclid, explained and demonstrated in a new and most easie method with the uses of each proposition in all the parts of the mathematicks / by Claude Francois Milliet D'Chales, a Jesuit ; done out of French, corrected and augmented, and illustrated with nine copper plates, and the effigies of Euclid, by Reeve Williams ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38722.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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PROPOSITION XII. PROBLEM.
TO draw a perpendicular to a Plane, from a point of the same Plane.
To draw from the point C a perpen∣dicular to the Plane AB; draw from the point E taken at discretion without the Plane, ED perpendicular to the same Plane (by the 11th.) Draw also (by the 30th. of the first,) CF parallel to DE, CF shall be perpendicular to the Plane AB, (by the 8th.)
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