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not mean to speak of: which two others are still,
by Euclid, continued under the common [or in]
appellation of the sides.
Now then, for whatever purpose, by whatever reason, &
in whatever manner a man is justified in distinguishing
any one of the bounds from the 2 remaining
ones, for the same purpose, by the same reason, & in
the same manner is his justifiable in distinguishing
those 2 sides from one another — let them be so distinguished
& call one of them the right, & the other
of them the left.
So of the Angles call one the angle to the right:
(not the right angle for an obvious reason) the other, the
angle to the left; & the remaining angle which is oppposite
to the base [boundary-line] the angle at the top. [not the
vertical angle, that being to be reserved for the twin name
ex.gr. the vertical angles.
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