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Book III   Proposition 17
For
    let the center E of the circle be taken; [III.1]

    let AE be joined,
and with center E and distance AE
    let the circle AFG be described;

from D
    let DF be drawn at right angles to EA,
and
    let EF, AB be joined;

I say that AB has been drawn from the point A touching the circle BCD.
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