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 51
the • «* * KB; I \ A D Point of Interfe61ion, fet offon the Arch any equal Di-Itances to C and L). 2d, With any large Dillancesgreater than D B, on the PointsI) and C defcribe Arches, as FI and G H, interfe6ling eachother m E. 3J. From the Point B to thePoint E, draw the Right LineB E the… … Curvd or Circular Line A BC, which IS alfo calld an Archof a Circle 5 for was the PointC to be movd on to E, andfrom thence to A, it wouldcompleat a round Space A BC E A, which is called aCircle. To divide a Right Line AC into two equal Parts by theperpendicular A C. B H jjl. Open the Compafles…
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