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 239
ll, have their Cir-cumferences alike, divided intothree hundred and iixty equalParts or Degrees, and each ofthofe Degrees are fuppofed tobe again divided into fixty equalParts called iMinutes. Every Circle is nearly equalto a Parallelogram, whofeLength is equal to half its Cir-cumference, and… … ^ 7 S j& L 74 22, the Half of the Circumfe- Breadth HM, to the Semi^;reucc of the Circle A EI, and diameter BL, is equal to thePa- rallelograirB C I C I rallelogram ACIK, whofeLength CK is equal to the Di-ameter A I, and the Breadth toeleven Fourteenths thereof. For HM, which is equal tofeven…
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