The American house-carpenter : a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs : together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1849)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 283
260 AMERICAN HOUSE-CARPENTER. from d, through c, draw d o ; then the hnes, i d and d o, will give the limit of the shadow cast by the shelf. … Fig. 311. 411. — To find the shadow of a shelf having one end acute or obtuse angled. Fig. 311 shows the plan and elevation of an acute-angled shelf. Find the line, e g, as before ; from a, erect the perpendicular, a b ; join 6 and e ; then b e and e g will define the boundary of shadow. 1 d c…
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