An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1881 - 1395 Seiten |
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... ellipsis formed by 5 groups of stones , to which Dr. Stukely has given the name of trilithons , because formed by two vertical and one horizontal stone : the former are from 17 to 18 feet high , the middle trilithon being the highest ...
... ellipsis formed by 5 groups of stones , to which Dr. Stukely has given the name of trilithons , because formed by two vertical and one horizontal stone : the former are from 17 to 18 feet high , the middle trilithon being the highest ...
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... ellipsis . The number all round is usually twenty ; such being the case at Athens ; but at Pæstum the exterior order of the great temple has twenty - four , the lower interior order twenty , and the upper interior sixteen only . It has ...
... ellipsis . The number all round is usually twenty ; such being the case at Athens ; but at Pæstum the exterior order of the great temple has twenty - four , the lower interior order twenty , and the upper interior sixteen only . It has ...
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... ELLIPSIS . 1058. The primary axis of an ellipsis is called the major axis , as AB ( fig . 407. ) ; and a straight line DE drawn through its centre perpendicular to it , and terminated at each extremity by the curve , is called the minor ...
... ELLIPSIS . 1058. The primary axis of an ellipsis is called the major axis , as AB ( fig . 407. ) ; and a straight line DE drawn through its centre perpendicular to it , and terminated at each extremity by the curve , is called the minor ...
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... ellipsis the squares of the ordinates of an axis are to each other as the rectangles of their abscissas . Let AVB ( fig . 408. ) be a plane passing through the axis of the cone , and AEB another section of the cone perpendicular to the ...
... ellipsis the squares of the ordinates of an axis are to each other as the rectangles of their abscissas . Let AVB ( fig . 408. ) be a plane passing through the axis of the cone , and AEB another section of the cone perpendicular to the ...
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... ellipsis , the square of the minor axis is to the square of the major axis as the difference of the squares of half the minor aris and the distance of an ordinate from the centre on the minor axis to the square of that ordinate . E M Q ...
... ellipsis , the square of the minor axis is to the square of the major axis as the difference of the squares of half the minor aris and the distance of an ordinate from the centre on the minor axis to the square of that ordinate . E M Q ...
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