In any triangle, if one of the sides be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles, and the three interior angles of the triangle are equal to two right angles.
      Let ABC be a triangle,
      and let one side of it BC be
      produced to D;
      I say that the exterior angle ACD
      is equal to the two interior and opposite angles
      CAB, ABC,
      and the three interior angles of the triangle
      ABC, BCA,
      CAB are equal to two right angles.
     
For let CE be drawn through the point C parallel to the straight line AB. [I. 31]
      Then since AB is parallel
      to CE,
      and AC has fallen
      upon them,
      the alternate angles BAC,
      ACE are
      equal to one another.
      
      [I. 29]
      
     
      Again, since AB is
      parallel to CE,
      and the straight line BD has fallen
      upon them,
      the exterior angle ECD is equal to
      the interior and opposite
      angle ABC.
      
      [I. 29]
      
     
      But the angle ACE was also proved
      equal to the angle BAC;
      therefore the whole angle ACD
      is equal to the two interior and opposite angles
      BAC, ABC.
     
      Let the angle ACB be added
      to each;
      therefore the angles ACD,
      ACB are equal to the three
      angles ABC,
      BCA, CAB.
     
But the angles ACD, ACB are equal to two right angles; [I. 13] therefore the angles ABC, BCA, CAB are also equal to two right angles.
Therefore etc. Q.E.D.
Book I: Euclid, Elements, Book I (ed. Sir Thomas L. Heath 1st Edition, 1908)
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