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Book III   Proposition 6
Now,
    each of FE, FB was proved equal to FC;
therefore
    FE is also equal to FB,
the less to the greater: which is impossible.

Therefore
    the point F is not the center of the circles ABC, CDE.

Being what it was required to prove.
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