A practical manual of house-painting, graining, marbling and sign-writing : containing full information on the processes of house-painting in oil and distemper, the formation of letters and practice of sign-writing, the principles of decorative art, a course of elementary drawing for house-painters, writers, etc., and a collection of useful receipts ; with nine coloured illustrations of woods and marbles, and numerous wood engravings (1888)
Davidson, Ellis A., d. 1878 · London : C. Lockwood & Son · leaf 330
e arcs cuttingeach other in g. Draw D G and f g, which will complete the Pentagonon A B. The above mode being a general one, any other poly-gon may be similarly constructed : thus, by dividingthe semicircle into seven equal parts, a heptagon willbe obtained; into eight, an octagon, and so on.… … A Fig. 111. Draw the diameter a b, and divide it into five equalparts. - . 304 ELEMENTARY DRAWING FOR HOUSE PAINTERS. From A and b, with radius A describe arcs cuttingeach other in c. From c, draw a line passing through the second divi-sion, and cutting the circle in d. Draw D B, which will be one…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-378-261.webp)
