 To follow the mathematical axiom, that a straight line is the shortest that can be drawn between two points, will not succeed in making the most commodious roads; hills must be avoided, towns must be resorted to, and the sudden bends of rivers must be...  A Practical Treatise on Making and Repairing Roads - Page 90by Edmund Leahy - 1844 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1813 - 450 pages
...policy o!' individuals. ' ' Roads should be laid out, as nearly as may be, in a straight line; but to follow with this view the mathematical axiom, that...resorted to, and the sudden bends of rivers must be avoided. All these circumstances must be atteded to ; therefore a perfectly straight road cannot often... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 616 pages
...find in favour of some degree of curvature, such good authority as that of Mr. Edgeworth. ' To follow the mathematical axiom, that a straight line is the...and the sudden bends of rivers must be shunned.'— ' It may perhaps appear surprising, that there is but little difference in length between a road that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 628 pages
...find in favour of some degree of curvature, such good authority as that of Mr. Edgeworth. ' To follow the mathematical axiom, that a straight line is the...to, and the sudden bends of rivers must be shunned." — ' It may perhaps appear surprising, that there is but little difference in length between a road... | |
 | 1820 - 632 pages
...find in favour of some degree of curvature, such good authority as that of Mr.. Edgeworth. ' To follow the mathematical axiom, that a straight line is the...be resorted to, and the sudden bends of rivers must he shunned.' — ' It may perhaps appear surprising, that there is but little difference in length... | |
 | William Laxton - Architecture - 1842 - 496 pages
...advantages. It would I* ridiculous to follow the old Roman fashion, on the mathematical axiom, tliat a straight line is the shortest that can be drawn between two points. Tliis vould not make Ihe most commodious road — hills must be avoided, I'jtrns must be resorted to,... | |
 | Robert Griffith Hatfield - Architecture - 1845 - 326 pages
...when not warped nor winding. 20. — A solid has length, breadth and thickness. 21. — A right, or straight, line is the shortest that can be drawn between two points. 22. — Parallel lines are equi-distant throughout their length. 23. — An angle is the inclination... | |
 | Meteorology - 1843 - 884 pages
...be without superseding public advantages. It would be ridiculous to follow the old Roman fashion, on the mathematical axiom that a straight line is the shortest that can be drawn between two points. This would not make the most commodious road — hills must be avoided, towns must be resorted to,... | |
 | William Minifie - Geometry, Descriptive - 1849 - 278 pages
...kinds; right lines, curved lines, and mixed lines. 3. A RIGHT LINE, or as it is more commonly called, a straight line, is the shortest that can be drawn between two given points as B. 4. A CURVE or CURVED LINE is that which does not lie evenly between its terminating... | |
 | 1853 - 710 pages
...The_mechanical principle tending to the same end, is recognised in the mathematical law, on which is founded the axiom, that a straight line is the shortest that can be drawn between any two given points. If these facts, and this reasoning, be founded in truth, what, let me ask, is... | |
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