Excerpt from Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Drawing, Designed as a Text-Book for the Mechanic, Architect, Engineer, and Surveyor: Comprising Geometrical Projection, Mechanical, Architectural, and Topographical Drawing, Perspective and Isometry

Drawing paper, tracing paper, mouth glue, mounting paper and drawings, varnishing, management of instruments, 35 - 44.

Geometrical problems. - Drawing of lines, division of lines, perpendiculars to, par allels, construction of angles, division of angles, description of arcs and circles, connection of straight lines by arcs, and arcs with arcs, compound curves, 42 - 56.

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