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 88
in area to the rectangle B G. Peob. LYI.—To construct a square equal to a given rectangle (fig. 155). Let A B C D be the rectangle ;produce A B, and set off B E equalto the side B C of the rectangle; bi-sect A E at K, and describe a semi-circle on A E ; draw the perpendicu-lar B H, cutting the… … 68 GEOMETRICAL PEOBLEMS. right line a distance equal to half the snm of the sides of the polygon.Tliis distance will be the base of the equivalent triangle, and the radius ofthe inscribed circle its perpendicular or altitude. PEOBLEMS ON THE ELLIPSE, THE PAUABOLA, THE HTPEEBOLA, THE CYCLOID, A:ND…
