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Book III   Proposition 16
Therefore
    the straight line drawn from the point A at right angles to BA will not fall within the circle.

Similarly we can prove that neither will it fall on the circumfrence;
therefore it will fall outside.

    Let it fall as AE;

I say next that into the space between the straight line AE and the circumference CHA another straight line cannot be interposed.
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