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 70
thoughtnot necessary to introduce in form. bFie. 95. 130.—Definition. If a straight line, as a 6, [Fig. 95,) stt.ndupon another straight line, as c d^ so that the two angles made at PRACTICAL GEOMETRY. 53 the point, 6, are equal—a b do a b d, (see note to Art. 27,) theneach of the two angles is… … 132.—Definition. The measure of an angle is the number ofdegrees contained between its two sides, using the angular pointas a centre upon which to describe the arc. Thus the arc, c e,{Fig. 96,) is the measure of the angle, c b e ; e a, of the angle,e b a ; and a d, of the angle, ab d.…
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