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 80
E F to one of the sides, andwith the radius E F, on the centre E, describe the circle. To describe the square. Draw two diameters A B, C D, at right angles,and produce them ; bisect the angle D E B at the centre by the diameterF G, and through F and G draw perpendiculars A C, B D, and join… … Fig. 182. from E with radius E B, cut A C at F ; from B, with radius B F, cut thecircumference at G H, and with the same radius step round the circle to Iand K; join the points so found to form the pentagon. Prob. XXXIX.—To construct a regular hexagon u])on a given straightline (fig 132). From A…
