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 36
to a b ; join c and b ; bisect c 6 at d—which will be the centre of the circle. If a circle be not too large for the purpose, its centre may veryreadily be ascertained by the help of a carpenters-square, thus :app y the corner of the square to any point in the circumference,as at a ; by the edges… … fig. 41. 82.—At a given point in a circle, to draw a tangent thereto.Let «, {Fig. 41,) be the given point, and b the centre of the cir-cle. Join a and b ; through the point, a, and at right angles toa b, draw c d ; then cdis the tangent required.
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