An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 1258
mathematicians, the following geometrical method of de-termining the relations between the parts of a catenary is translated. The eatenarcaucurve is of two kinds, the eominon, which is formed by a chain equally thick or equallyheavy in all its points; or uncommon, which is formed by a thread… … Fig. 1379. a chain of similar and equal links of homogeneous matters, as flexible as possible, from any two points not in a perpendicular line, nor so distant from each other as the length of the chain. Prick the plane through the links as nearly as possible in the middle of the chain, and througii…
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