Geodaesia : or, The art of surveying and measuring land made easy (1768)
Love, John, fl. 1688, Clark, Samuel · London : Printed for J. Rivington · leaf 37
more than a figure offive, fix, feven, or eight angles; thefe angles areall equal one to another, and their fides confequentlyall of the fame length. And thus (though I men-tion no more than eight) the circumference of thecircle may be divided into as many parts as youpleafe; and the regular… … A circle is a figure bounded by one curved line,^ —^ ^ ~ as A, called the cir-cumference of thecircle, in the mid-dle whereof is apoint, from whencethe circle is defcrib-ed, and is calledthe center; from EV—• — /. this point or center all ftrait lines drawnto the circumfe-rence are equal, orof the…
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