. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. again in contactwith tlie sdid line, generate a cycloid. Let BC be the AB is eipial to the semi-circumference of such circle,and any chords at whose extremities b, lines nb, ali, eions of any conveniiut lengtli,throiigli which draw horizontal lintS. , from thepoint G in DC to the Krst tenth part from G to A draw a diagonal, and jiarallel thereto tlie otherdiagonals reciulred. The intersections of tiiese liiagonals with the ho


. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. again in contactwith tlie sdid line, generate a cycloid. Let BC be the AB is eipial to the semi-circumference of such circle,and any chords at whose extremities b, lines nb, ali, eions of any conveniiut lengtli,throiigli which draw horizontal lintS. , from thepoint G in DC to the Krst tenth part from G to A draw a diagonal, and jiarallel thereto tlie otherdiagonals reciulred. The intersections of tiiese liiagonals with the horizontal lines give liundredtli i)arts ofa foot, inasmuch as each tenth is divided by the diago-nals into tea equal parts in Fig. 39


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