The builder & workman's new director : comprehending definitions and descriptions of the component parts of buildings. the principles of construction and the geometrical development of the principal difficulties that usually occur in the different branches of mechanical professions employed in the erection of edifices (1824)
Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844, author · [London] : John Day, Mark King, James Pringle, Henry Joll, Edward Sanders, Robert Johnson, William Foster, John Wright & Thomas Prosser · leaf 162
102 STEREOTOMY. PROBLEM III. The base or right end of the ungula of a cylinoid being given, and the length of two straight lines perpendicular to the base contained between two points in the outline of the base and the oblique end, to describe that oblique end so that it may pass through another… … fourth part of the whole circle, and me perpendicular to the radius cm ; then, in the oblique end, the curve DBM will be a portion of the semi- ellipse ADBMa, of which the centre is C, and ME parallel to CD will be a tangent to the curve at the point M. A CONE. Definitions. 1. A cone is a solid…
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