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 33
om the angular point, a, with any radiusdescribe the arc, he; and with the same radius, on the line, d e, 20 AMERICAN H0USE-CARPB:NTER. and from the point, d^ describe the arc, fg-; take the distance, b c, and upon gj describe the small arc at/; join/and d ; and the angle, e df, will be equal to… … Fig. 34. 77.— To bisect an angle. Let a b c, {Fig. 34,) be the angle to be bisected. Upon b, with any radius, describe the arc, a c ; upon a and c, with a radius greater than half a c, describe arcs cutting each other at d ; join b and d ; and b d will bisect the angle, a b c, us was required. This…
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