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Book I   Proposition 1
With center A and radius AB
    let the circle BCD have been described; [Post.3]

again, with center B and radius BA
    let the circle ACE have been described. [Post.3]

And
    let the straight lines CA, CB have joined C, the point in which the circles cut one another, to A, B. [Post.1]
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