The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 394
e these diagrammatic representations of this fact — that the chords of the lateral inclined planes form a constantly lessening angle with the plane of the conjugate diameter as they descend. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 represent the chords of the lateral inclined planes at the first, second, and third… … marked degree in the anterolateral planes, but the posterior planes, gov- erning a course of much greater length, do show it very plainly, as may be seen by measuring the angles. This diminution of the angle continues until, as we have seen, the long diameter of the elliptical section has become…
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