Teachers' manual for freehand drawing in Intermediate schools : intended to accompany the drawing-books for intermediate schools (1878)
Smith, Walter, 1836-1886 · Toronto, A. Miller · leaf 115
e space bounded bythe curve, and not the curve itself, is the ellipse.But the word ellipse, like the word circle, is,for convenience, often used to describe both thecurve, and the enclosed space. The ellipse being a mathematical figure, it can bedrawn with perfect accuracy only by mechanicalmeans.… … Drawing the Ellipse by Mechanical Means. Directions. — Draw two strai.^ht lines, 1 2, 3 4, of indefinite len,th, nnitnal-ly perpendicu-lar, and bisect-ing each other.Fioiii the p(jintof bisection, o,mark off oncither hand,iilong one of thelines, as at 1and _, the samedistance, name-ly, one-half…
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