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 346
radius,and produce it. From the periphery * of the circle,, and on this radius,set off F G, equal d e. From o, with radius o g, describe an arc. At any point, as h, draw a line at right angles to bc, and equal to d e, viz., h i. From I, draw a line parallel to b c, cutting the arcdrawn from o in j.… … Bisect the angle by the line b f.On either of the lines of the angle erect a perpendicularequal to the given radius d e, viz., d e, * Periphery, the circumference or bounding-line of a circle. 320 ELEMENTARY DRAWING FOR HOUSE PAINTERS. From draw a line parallel to b c, cutting the bi-secting line…
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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-335-226.webp)
