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 129
is the Swing or reci-procal o s O V jrocal Afccnt or Defcent of aPendulum. … I. If a (ingle Pendulum befufpended between two Scmi-Cycloids BC, CD, which haethe Diameter C E of the ge-nerating Circle equiil to halfthe Length of the String, fothat the String, as it ofcillates,folds about them 5 all the O-fcillations, however unequal,will be Ifochional in a non re-filling…
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