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 26
Fig. 22. … 57.—The axis of a cone is a right line passmg through it, frointhe vertex to the centre of the circle at the base. 58.—An ellipsis is described if a cone be cut by a plane, notparallel to its base, passing quite through the curved surface,(a 6, Fig. 23.) 59.—A parabola is described if a cone be cut…
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