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 66
iven, to detect the pointof contact. ~Letagbf, (Fig. 89,) be the given ellipsis and tan-gent. Through the centre, e, draw a b, parallel to the tangent;any where between e and/, draw c d, parallel to a b ; bisect c d ino ; through o and e, draw / g ; then g will be the point of con-tact required.… … 125.—Any diameter and its conjugate being given, to as-certain the two axes, and thence to describe the ellipsis. Leta b and c d, (Fig. 90,) be the given diameters, conjugate to oneanother. Through c, draw ef, parallel to a b ; from c, draw cg, at right angles to ef; make c g equal to a h or h b -…
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