Proposition: Prop. 11.05: Three Intersecting Lines Perpendicular to Another Line are in One Plane

(Proposition 5 from Book 11 of Euclid's “Elements”)

If a straight line is set up at right angles to three straight lines cutting one another, at the common point of section, then the three straight lines are in one plane.

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

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  1. Prime.mover and others: "Pr∞fWiki", https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page, 2016