The American house-carpenter; a treatise on the art of building, and the strength of materials (1867)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 25
Fig. 17. Fig. 18. Fig. 19. Fig. 20. 47.—A cir^cle is a figure bounded by a curved line, called thecircumference ; which is every where equi-distant from a cer-tain point within, called its centre. The circumference is also called the periphery/, and sometimesthe circle. 48.—The radius of a circle… … Fig. 21. 49.—The diameter is a right line passing through the centre,and terminating at two opposite points in the circumference.Hence it is twice the length of the radius, (c d, Fig. 21.) 50.—An arc of a circle is a part of the circumference, (c b orbed, Fig. 21.) 51.—A chord is a right line…
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