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 346
. DEVELOPEJIENT OF RIGHT AND OBLIQUE CVLINDERS. 1170. Cylinders may be considered as prisms whose bases are formed by polygons of aninfinite number of sides. Ilius, graphically, the developement of a right cylinder is ob-tained, by a rectangle of the same height, having in its other direction the… … the prism, and consider the inclination of it. Having described centrally on its axis thecircle or ellipsis which forms its perpendicular thickness in respect of the axis, the circum-ference shoulfi be divided into an even number of equal parts, as, for instance, twelve,begiiming from the diameter…
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