A complete treatise on practical land-surveying, in seven parts; (1839)
Nesbit, A[nthony], 1778-1859. [from old catalog] · London, Longman, Orme, Browne, Green, and Longmans; [etc., etc.] · leaf 346
er of those parts, and thequotient will be each persons share of the base. But, if theparts be unequal, say, as the area of the whole triangle is to thewhole base, so is each persons share of the triangle to his shareof the base. (See Simpsons Geom. IV. 7.; Reynards Geom.V. 1. ; and Euclid VI. L)… … Here AB= 1500 links, which divided by 3 (the number ofparts) gives 500 links, each persons share of the base. FromA, therefore, set off 500 links to D, and from D 500 links toE ; draw the lines C D and C E, to represent the division-fences ; and the triangles A D C, D E C, and E B C, are thethree…
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