The American house carpenter: a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 47
Fif?. 56. Fig. 57. … 95.— Within a given circle to inscribe any regular polygon. Let a b c 2, [Fig. 56, 57 and 58,) be given circley. Draw the diameter, a c ; upon this, erect an equi-lateral triangle, a e c, according to Art. 96; divide a c into as many equ.^. parts as the polygon is to have sides, as at 1, 2, 3, 4,…
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