An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 1089 Seiten |
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... cutting tools , as is still the practice in some parts of the continent of America . These , as the metals became known , would be supplanted by tools formed of them . Among the Peruvians , at their invasion by the Spaniards , the only ...
... cutting tools , as is still the practice in some parts of the continent of America . These , as the metals became known , would be supplanted by tools formed of them . Among the Peruvians , at their invasion by the Spaniards , the only ...
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... cutting away the lower angles Fig . 14 . ( fig . 14. ) . It is probably the most ancient of buildings in Greece ; and it is a curious circumstance that at New Grange , near Drogheda , in Ire- land , there is a monument whose form ...
... cutting away the lower angles Fig . 14 . ( fig . 14. ) . It is probably the most ancient of buildings in Greece ; and it is a curious circumstance that at New Grange , near Drogheda , in Ire- land , there is a monument whose form ...
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... cutting it up into minute divisions . The central compartment of it is 140 feet in length , and consists of two orders of half columns ; the lower has eight semi - columns , which are Doric , standing on a plinth , and in the central ...
... cutting it up into minute divisions . The central compartment of it is 140 feet in length , and consists of two orders of half columns ; the lower has eight semi - columns , which are Doric , standing on a plinth , and in the central ...
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... cutting the line AB in any other point , as G. Draw the diameter DG and the right line AD ; this line AD will be perpendicular to the line AB . D F The angle DAG at the circumference is measured ( Prop . 42. ) by half the arc DFG ...
... cutting the line AB in any other point , as G. Draw the diameter DG and the right line AD ; this line AD will be perpendicular to the line AB . D F The angle DAG at the circumference is measured ( Prop . 42. ) by half the arc DFG ...
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... cuts the other two sides ( Prop . 60. ) propor- L N M Fig . 298 . G R tionally . Wherefore FM is to MG as FN is to NL ; that is , A is to B as C is to D. 944. PROP . LXVI . To find a third proportional to two given lines . Let the two ...
... cuts the other two sides ( Prop . 60. ) propor- L N M Fig . 298 . G R tionally . Wherefore FM is to MG as FN is to NL ; that is , A is to B as C is to D. 944. PROP . LXVI . To find a third proportional to two given lines . Let the two ...
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Seite 6 - In taking two stations having the same value, the one to the north and the other to the south of...
Seite 316 - The angle at the centre of a circle is double of the angle at the circumference upon the same base, that is, upon the same part of the circumference.
Seite 16 - The western face, which is the least elevated, is the most interesting on account of the appearance of building it presents. Near the summit of it appears a low wall, with interruptions, built of unburnt bricks, mixed up with chopped straw or reeds, and cemented with clay-mortar of great thickness, having between every layer a layer of reeds ; and on the north side are also some vestiges of a similar construction.
Seite 375 - As 360 is to the degrees in the arc of the sector, so is the area of the whole circle to the area of the sector.
Seite 17 - ... in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which is broken and irregular, and rent by a large fissure extending through a third of its height.
Seite ix - Vive, vale ; si quid novisti rectius istis, Candidus impertí ; si non, his utere mecum.
Seite 51 - Twenty-five years, and above three millions sterling, were employed by the founder: his liberal taste invited the artists of Constantinople, the most skilful sculptors and architects of the age; and the buildings were sustained or adorned by twelve hundred columns of Spanish and African, of Greek and Italian marble. The hall of audience was...
Seite 372 - PROBLEM I. To find the area of a parallelogram, whether it be a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, or a rhomboides.
Seite 199 - The taste of all these stately mansions was that bastard style which intervened between Gothic and Grecian architecture; or which perhaps was the style that had been invented for the houses of the nobility, when they first ventured on the settlement of the kingdom after the termination of the quarrel between the Roses, to abandon their fortified dungeons, and consult convenience and magnificence...
Seite 216 - What the back-ground is in painting, in architecture is the real ground on which the building is erected ; and no architect took greater care that his work should not appear crude and hard, that is, that it did not abruptly start out of the ground without expectation or preparation.