American text books of art education : Geometrical drawing (1873)
Smith, Walter, 1836-1886 · Boston : James R. Osgood & Co. · leaf 80
nce from 6 to 3above 6 on the perpendicular, and for the duodecagon mark off thedistance from 6 to B, for the centres of the circumscribing circles. It will be observed that for a hexagon 6 is the centre of a circum-scribing circle, and that for every side beyond six in a requiredfigure, one… … Pltou. 82. — Within a given circle to inscribe any number of pqualcircles. Draw a circle. If the number of circles to be inscribed is uneven,as five for example, divide the circumference of the circle into tin-same number of parts as circles to be inscribed, as in Prob. 39, inpoints 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.…
Geometrical drawing
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