Geodaesia : or, The art of surveying and measuring land made easy (1768)
Love, John, fl. 1688, Clark, Samuel · London : Printed for J. Rivington · leaf 176
Draw the line C A; parallel thereunto draw alfoB F; join the points C F, and the five-fided figure,having one angle, is now reduced Jnto a four-fidedfigure, or trapezium; which you may again reduceinto a triangle, as has been before taught. Of Dividing Lands. » 153 To divide an Irregular plot of… … AB *54 Of Dividing Lands. ABCDEFGHIA is a field to be divided e-qually between two men, by a flrait line proceedingfrom A. Firft, Confider how to divide the field into five-fided figures and trapezia, that you may the betterreduce it into triangles: as by drawing the line K L,you cut off the…
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