Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding
by T. Sundara Row
Publisher: The Open Court pub. co 1917
ISBN/ASIN: B00087XADO
Number of pages: 176
Description:
The book provides a wide range of ways to fold paper and create the squares, equilateral triangles, rectangles, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, nonagons, decagons and dodecagons, pentedecagons and similar objects. It also contains the conic section which gives you an opportunity to learn how to create circles, parabolas, ellipses and hyperbolas.
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