Molin, Douglas2021-05-212021-05-212021-05-21http://hdl.handle.net/2077/68457We introduce the classical theory of heights on projective space and prove explicit quasiparallelogram laws for the ordinary height and the naive height on elliptic curves over number fields with shortWeierstrass equations. As corollaries, we obtain bounds for the differences between the classical heights and the canonical height, similar to the well-known Silverman bounds. The results are analyzed through a number of examples.engheight, elliptic curve, quasiparallelogram law, canonical height, difference boundstext