The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 11
the hypothenuse ofthe above triangle, it will generate the twisted surface jiroper forthe beds of the stones. Mr. Buck was the first to show that thejoints that ajipear on tlie face of the arch, pass tlirougli a point O,below the centre C, when the section on the square, or sectionperpendicular to… … a, A Let the figure represent the elevation of an oblique bridge, cir-cular or elliptic on tlie square—if it be segmental, the ellipsesmust be supposed completed. Take the axis of the cylinder forthe axis of y, and let the plane .»■)/ be horizontal. A, B ; a, b, arethe semi-axes, major and minor,…
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