The American builder's companion : or, A system of architecture, particularly adapted to the present style of building ; illustrated with seventy copperplate engravings (1827)
Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845 · Boston : R.P.&C. Williams · leaf 21
ch way upon those lines ; join each side, and it will be completed. «FIG. 13.How to describe a pentagon. Let a 6, be the given side, and continue it outto e; on a the centre, describe a semicircle ; divide it into five equal parts ;through 2, 3, and 4, draw « 2, a c, a b, make 5 b, equal to a 6, 2… … A-l^f njarnin. HAV.Sn\^er. AMERICAN BUILDERS COMPANION. li PLATE III. FIG. I.To make an octagon in a square. Find the centre n, with the distance, a n,and in the points a, b, c, d, make the arches e n m, I n h, i n f, and k n g; join I &,m ?, // g, andfe, which completes the octagon. FIG. 2.Any…
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