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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 68

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will soon strike all theradical lines, having only to move it but once from the point e up to c at the crown; fig. F shows the commonmethod by dividing the basis of each into a like number of parts, and transferring the height, as the figures explain,at No. 1 and No. 2 ; nothing is more tedious in… … // i CHURCH WORK AND RANGING OF RIBS. 35 ceiling ;* and let ab ai No. 1, be the same height, and b c the direction of the light, and a c^vill be the length of the curb. Make a c at No. 2, equal to a c at No. 1, and divide it intosix equal parts; also divide a b, in figure A, into six equal parts,…

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