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... and described in schemes or diagrams upon a floor, sufficiently large for all the parts of the operation, has been called DESCRIPTIVE CARPENTRY. In order to prepare the reader's mind for this subject, it will be necessary to point out the figures...

An Introduction to Solid Geometry: And to the Study of Chrystallography ... - Page 80
by Nathaniel John Larkin - 1820 - 140 pages
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The New Practical Builder and Workman's Companion, Containing a Full Display ...

Peter Nicholson - Architecture - 1823 - 210 pages

...subject, it will be necessary to point out the figures of the sections, as taken in certain positions. ALL THE SECTIONS OF A CYLINDER, parallel to its base, are circles. All the sections of a cylinder, parallel to its axis, are parallelograms. And, if the axis of the cylinder...

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