An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1881 - 1395 Seiten |
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... Vitruvius's Architecture is a valuable addition to the library , as such an edition of the whole treatise had not previously been published in England ; portions only having been attempted by Newton and by Wilkins . The want of such a ...
... Vitruvius's Architecture is a valuable addition to the library , as such an edition of the whole treatise had not previously been published in England ; portions only having been attempted by Newton and by Wilkins . The want of such a ...
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... Vitruvius describes in the first chapter of his second book . " The first attempt , " says our author , " was the mere erection of a few spars , united together with twigs , and covered with mud . Others built their walls of dried lumps ...
... Vitruvius describes in the first chapter of his second book . " The first attempt , " says our author , " was the mere erection of a few spars , united together with twigs , and covered with mud . Others built their walls of dried lumps ...
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... Vitruvius ( lib . ii . cap . 1. ) , who judged of it from its ruins . The fabulous Cadmus - for we cannot help following Jacob Bryant in his conjectures upon this personage has been supposed to have existed about 1519 B. C. , to have ...
... Vitruvius ( lib . ii . cap . 1. ) , who judged of it from its ruins . The fabulous Cadmus - for we cannot help following Jacob Bryant in his conjectures upon this personage has been supposed to have existed about 1519 B. C. , to have ...
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... Vitruvius of the origin of the orders of architecture , we should scarcely be justified in its omission here . It seems necessary to notice it in any work on architecture ; and , after remarking that the age which that author assigns ...
... Vitruvius of the origin of the orders of architecture , we should scarcely be justified in its omission here . It seems necessary to notice it in any work on architecture ; and , after remarking that the age which that author assigns ...
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... Vitruvius imagines it was the object of the entasis to correct . It cannot be denied that in a merely conical shaft there is an appearance of concavity , for which it is difficult The following explanation of this phenomenon , if it may ...
... Vitruvius imagines it was the object of the entasis to correct . It cannot be denied that in a merely conical shaft there is an appearance of concavity , for which it is difficult The following explanation of this phenomenon , if it may ...
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