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 212
al tothe Altitude of one of the Tri-angles P Y angles which compofe it, mul-tiplied by the whole Circumfe-rence of the Bafe of the Pyra-mid. To defirihe a PyramUy on a Plane. Firil: draw the Bafe v. gr,the Triangle ABC (if the Py- P Y ramid required, be Triangular j{o as that the Side AB fupposdto… … To ConftruEl a ■Tyramld ofPafie-Soard, &c. Suppofe, V. gr. a Triangu-r Pyramid required. 1. With the Radms AB, de-i^ribe an Arch BE, as in thefigure, and thereto apply threeequal Chords B C, CD andDR 2. On DC conflruft an equi-lateral Triangle D F C, anddraw the Riglit-lines A D andAC, this…
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