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 48
for radius, describe arcs intersecting at c; join a and c, also cand b ; then a cb will be the triangle required. … Fig. 60 97.— To describe an equi-latei^al j^ectangle, or square. Leta b, {Fig. 60,) be the length of a side of the proposed square.Upon a and b, with a b for radius, describe the arcs, a d and be;bisect the arc, a e, in /; upon e, with e f for radius, describe thearc, c f d; join a and c, c and d^…
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