The American Builder's General Price Book and Estimator: To Elucidate the Principles of Ascertaining the Correct Value of Every Description of Artificers' Work Required in Building ... in Any Part of New England: Deduced from Extensive Experience in the Art of Building. To which are Added a Variety of Useful Tables, Memoranda, &c |
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Page 5 - From 8 times the chord of half the arc, subtract the chord of the whole arc ; one-third of the remainder will be the length of the arc nearly.
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| Title | The American Builder's General Price Book and Estimator: To Elucidate the Principles of Ascertaining the Correct Value of Every Description of Artificers' Work Required in Building ... in Any Part of New England: Deduced from Extensive Experience in the Art of Building. To which are Added a ... Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature 1450-1850 Making of the modern economy |
| Author | James Gallier |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | M. Burns, 1836 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 May 2007 |
| Length | 208 pages |
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