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The Architectural review and American builders' journal (1869)

Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, Lukens, Charles J · [Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger] · leaf 119

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and join the points. The four-sidedfigure called a square is thus formed. Problem VI. On a given right line,A, B, to construct a pentagon, or Jive-sided figure. … Draw B, F, perpendicular and equalto the half of A, B. Produce A, F, toG, making F, G, equal to F, B. Fromthe points A and B, with the radius B,G, describe arcs cutting each other at I.From I, with the radius I, B, describe acircle. Inscribe the successive chordsA, E ; E, D ; P, C ; C, B, which…

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