The builder's dictionary, or, Gentleman and architect's companion : explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice of the various branches thereof ... : also necessary problems in arithmetic, geometry, mechanics, perspective, hydraulics, and other mathematical sciences : together with the quantities proportions, and prices of all kinds of materials used in building ... (1734)
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), ca. 1700-ca. 1750, Devoto, John, fl. 1719-1752 · London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch ..., and S. Austen ... · leaf 238
s than a Semicircle, isfo much, as that Arch wants ofa Semicircle or 180 Degrees. As for Example: The Arch% H is the Complement of theArchHDG: So likewife isCEH the Complement of the Arch HD, and HDG is theComplement of the Arch H E. To divide the Circumferenceof the Grcle CAED into 360equal Parts… … its Centre; then will the Circum-ference of the Circle be dividedinto four equal Parts, at thePoints CAED, and confe-quently the Circle into fourQuarters, each of which is cni-led a Quadrant, as A B C, or ABE, l!fc. Secondly^ Make A 3 and E6equal to the Radius B E, or A B,then will the Arch A E be…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-299-194.webp)
