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Definition: Def. 11.11: Solid Angle

(Definition 11 from Book 11 of Euclid's “Elements”)

A solid angle is the inclination (constituted) by more than two lines joining one another (at the same point), and not being in the same surface, to all of the lines. Otherwise, a solid angle is that contained by more than two plane angles, not being in the same plane, and constructed at one point.

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1. Fitzpatrick, Richard: Euclid's "Elements of Geometry"

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