Burn, Robert Scott · London : Ingram, Cooke, and Co. · leaf 121
vestigations, preferring torun the risk of being thought over-minute in illustrative details, to incur-ring the charge of obscurity, which, if they were less numerous, mightotherwise result. The quickest method of forming a cube is by describing a circle, fig. 79,i, d,g, h, e, andyj of any… … as d, measuring three times to e ; and this on both sides ; join these pointsby lines fg and % h. Now to make the cube, join the lines as in the figure80, annexed, as ab, bb, bc, cd, de, e a, im&fd; the cube is complete.The square a b b f is the top, the square fbcd the right-hand, and…
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