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 323
e Lines. A ^lane Superficies isthat which has no Inequality,but lies even between its boun-dary Lines. A Concave Superficies isthe internal Part of an orbicu-lar Body. A Convex Superficies isthe exterior Part of a fphericalBody. The Meafure or Quantity ofa Superficies or Surface, iscalld the Area… … S Y rated by the Motion of Pointsfo are Superficies by the Mo-tion of Right Lines. For Firjfy If the Right LineA B be fixd at A, as on aCentre, and the Point B movdto C, thence to D, and fromthence to E, and laflly to B,it will by its Revolution de-fcribe a Superficies, which iscalld a Circle. A G…
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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-162-91.webp)
