The American house-carpenter; a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 31
to its base, passing quite through the curved surface,(a b, Fig. 23.) 59.—A parabola is described if a cone be cut by a plane,parallel to a plane touching the curved surface, (c d, Fig. 23—c d being parallel tofg.) 60.—An hyperbola is described if a cone be cut by a plane,parallel to any plane… … 62.—The transverse axis is the longest diameter of theellipsis, (a 6, Fig. 24.) 63.—The conjugate axis is the shortest diameter of theellipsis ; and is, therefore, at right angles to the transverse axis.(c d, Fig. 24) 64.—The parameter is a right line passing through the focusof an ellipsis, at…
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