A system of geometry and trigonometry : with a treatise on surveying ... in which, also, the principles of rectangular surveying ... are fully explained: with a complete series of mathematical tables, and the necessary explanations (1830)
Flint, Abel, 1765-1825, Gillet, George, Barnard, Frederick A. P. (Frederick Augustus Porter), 1809-1889 · Hartford : Cooke & co. · leaf 26
Draw the line AB equal to the longest side of the rec-tangle ; on B erect a perpendiculajr the length of the shortestside to C ; from C, with the longest side, and from A, withthe shortest side, describe arcs intersecting each other at D,and draw the lines AD and CD. GEOMETRY. 33 Fig, 39. … PROBLEM XVIII. To de- >^ scribe a circle which shall passthrough any three given points^not lying in a right line, as Ay B,D. Fig. 39. Draw lines from A to B and from B to D ; bisect thoselines by problem II. and the point where the bisecting linesintersect each other, as at C, will be the…
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