If a Straight Line Be Bisected

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Page of a geometry textbook illustrated with rectangles and lines of various colors

If a straight line be bisected and produced to any point, the rectangle contained by the whole line so increased, and the part produced, together with the square of half the line, is equal to the square of the line made up of the half, and the produced part .

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Name:: Byrne, Oliver
Dates:: 1810-1880
Country:: UK

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Subject:: Science & Technology
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: The Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: The first six books of the elements of Euclid
Author:: Byrne, Oliver
Publisher:: London: William Pickering, 1847
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Page of a geometry textbook showing Euclid’s Elements book II, proposition 6 illustrated with rectangles and lines of various colors.

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