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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 53

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arcs cut- ting the sides of the square at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 ; join 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, &c., and the figure is completed. In order to eight-square a hand-rail, or any piece that is to be afterwards rounded, draw the diagonals, a d and b c, upon the end of it, after it has been… … 95. — Within a given circle to inscribe any regular polygon. Let a b c2, [Fig. 56, 57 and 58,) be given circles. Draw the diameter, a c; upon this, erect an equi-lateral triangle, a e c, according to Art. 96 ; divide a c into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides, as at 1, 2, 3, 4,…

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