The carpenter's new guide: being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery. Treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, brick and plaster groins ... with a great variety of designs for roofs, trussed girders ... with many other things entirely new: the whole founded on true geometrical principles; the theory and practice well explained and fully exemplified on eighty-four copper-plates; including some observations and calculations on the strength of timber (1830)
Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844 · Philadelphia, J. Grigg · leaf 289
s^ CONCLUSION In which are examined, by xvay of preventive Caution to the Student,several Methods, which are founded on wrong Principles, andbetter ones are here proposed. PLATE LXXXII. Of the Ellipsis. THE old manner for intersecting all kinds of lines, applied to Gothic and ellipticalfigures, to…
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