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Excerpt from The Carpenter's Cyclopedia: Comprising Modern Carpentry, Plain, and Advanced Practical Uses of the Steel Square, Timber Framing, Light and Heavy Stair-Building and Handrailing
When a man becomes a good workman, it goes with out saying that he has also become possessor of a fair amount of practical geometrical knowledge, though he may not be aware of the fact.
The workman who can construct a roof, hipped, gabled, or otherwise, cutting' all his material on the ground, has attained an advanced practical knowledge of geometry, though he may never have heard of Euclid or opened a book relating to the science. Some of the best workmen I have met were men who knew nothing of geometry as taught in the books, yet it was no trouble for them to lay out a circular or elliptical stairway, or construct a rail over them, a feat that requires a knowledge of geometry of a high order to properly accomplish.
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