Art Education for High Schools: A Comprehensive Text Book on Art Education for High Schools, Treating Pictorial, Decorative, and Constructive Art, Historic Ornament and Art History |
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Page 126 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 125 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the Circumference, all points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the Centre.
Page 117 - AB of the circle into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides. With the points A and B as centers and radius AB, describe arcs cutting each other at C.
Page 123 - A plane surface, or simply a plane, is a surface such that, if any two points in it are joined by a straight line, the line will lie wholly in the surface. A curved surface is a surface no portion of which, however small, is plane.
Page 225 - Harmony means the consistency of likeness, having something in common. A unity, all the terms of which are in interior accord.
Page 154 - Fig. 2, etc.) is called an element. curve formed by the intersection of a cone by a plane parallel to one of its elements is called a parabola. The plan and front elevations of the cone and curve of intersection are found in a manner similar to the method used in the last problem. To find the side elevation, proceed as follows: Draw the side elevation O"A"B" of the cone with the center line tv as its axis.
Page 126 - A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc.
Page 167 - The eccentricity, or throw of the eccentric, is the distance between the center of the shaft and the center of the eccentric.
Page 115 - With A and B as centers, and a radius equal to AB, describe two arcs intersecting each other in C.