Appleton's cyclopædia of drawing, designed as a textbook for the mechanic, architect, engineer, and surveyor (1866)
Worthen, William Ezra, 1819-1897, [from old catalog] ed, Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1866. D. Appleton & co.) [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 76
toiKl one of thoni at F. GEOMETRICAL PROBLEMS. 65 and bisect it with the perpendicular L I cutting E F at I; on the centre IJ^\ with radius I F describe the arc F as required. … a, Fis:. 117. Prob. XXyn.—To find the arc which shall he tangent to a given jpoint Kona straight line^ ;-:k_ andjpass through a given jpoint outside the line Fig. 116. (fig. iiY). Erect at A a perpendicular to the given line ; connect C A, and bisectit by a perpendicular; the intersection of the…
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