Geodaesia : or, The art of surveying and measuring land made easy (1768)
Love, John, fl. 1688, Clark, Samuel · London : Printed for J. Rivington · leaf 89
y the number of fides you would have yourfigure to contain; the quotient taken from the line ofchords mall be one fide of fuch a figure. EXAMPLE. For to make a pentagon, or a figure of five fides:divide 360 by 5, the quotient is 72, one fide of apentagon. Take 60 degrees from your line of chords,… … B to C, and fo round till you come to A again.Then having drawn lines between thofe marks, thepentagon is compleated. The like of any otherpolygon, be the number of fides what they will. -.Example. For the fide of a heptagon: divide360 by 7, the quotient will be 51 degr. 25 min.which if you take…
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