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

again, with center B and distance BA
    let the circle ACE be described; [Post.3]

and from the point C, in which the circles cut one another, to the points A and B
    let the straight lines CA and CB be drawn. [Post.1]
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