Geodaesia : or, The art of surveying and measuring land made easy (1768)
Love, John, fl. 1688, Clark, Samuel · London : Printed for J. Rivington · leaf 52
five-fided figure thatcan be made within that circle. With this extent ofyour compaffes, you may mark out five points roundthe circle, and joining thofe points with right lines,the figure will be finifhed. To make a hexagon, or fix-fided Jigure.Draw an obfcure circle,as you fee here, and… … jo Geometrical Problems. This is the way coopers ufe to make heads fortheir cafks. ¥0 make a heptagon, or figure of feven equal fidesand angles. You muft begin andproceed, as if you weregoing to defcribe an e-quilateral triangle in acircle, till you havedrawn the line EF;then taking with…
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