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 37
d and tangent is equal to any 24 AMEEICAX HOrSE-CAEPEXTEK. inscribed angle in the opposite segment of the cucle, {Art163;) ah being the chord, and lea the angle in the oppositesegment of the circle, l^ow, the angles d ah and h c a ai-eequal, because the angles d ah and h a c are, by… … Firr. 43. 84.—A circle and a tangent given^ to find the point of cortr tact. From any point, as a, {Fig. 43,) in the tangent, h c. draw a line to the centre d / bisect a d at e / upon e, with the radius, e a, describe the arc, afd; f is the point of contact required. If/ and d were joined, the line…
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