An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 1089 Seiten |
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... portico is a water- trough cut out of a single stone 20 ft . long and 17 ft . 5 in . broad , and standing 3 ft . high from From hence to the northern wall of the platform is covered with fragments ; and the remains of one column not ...
... portico is a water- trough cut out of a single stone 20 ft . long and 17 ft . 5 in . broad , and standing 3 ft . high from From hence to the northern wall of the platform is covered with fragments ; and the remains of one column not ...
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... portico decorated with twisted columns of Tabriz mar- ble , leading through two brazen gates , whose extremities are of sil- ver , and their whole surface sculp- tured and embossed with flowers , and verses from the Koran . Advancing ...
... portico decorated with twisted columns of Tabriz mar- ble , leading through two brazen gates , whose extremities are of sil- ver , and their whole surface sculp- tured and embossed with flowers , and verses from the Koran . Advancing ...
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... portico , stretching through the whole front ( 36 ) ft . ) of the temple , and its depth was half its extent . The cell , or main body of the temple , was 543 ft . deep , and the sanctuary beyond 36 cubits ; the height of it being equal ...
... portico , stretching through the whole front ( 36 ) ft . ) of the temple , and its depth was half its extent . The cell , or main body of the temple , was 543 ft . deep , and the sanctuary beyond 36 cubits ; the height of it being equal ...
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... portico were two pillars of brass , which were cast by Hiram , " a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali , " whose " father was a man of Tyre , " and who " came to king Solomon and wrought all his work . " These two pillars of brass ( 1 ...
... portico were two pillars of brass , which were cast by Hiram , " a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali , " whose " father was a man of Tyre , " and who " came to king Solomon and wrought all his work . " These two pillars of brass ( 1 ...
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... portico of columns . The roof is of the form of a vault , 40 ft . from the ground to its crown , and has the appearance of being supported by thirty pillars , octagonal in plan , whose capitals and bases are formed of elephants , tigers ...
... portico of columns . The roof is of the form of a vault , 40 ft . from the ground to its crown , and has the appearance of being supported by thirty pillars , octagonal in plan , whose capitals and bases are formed of elephants , tigers ...
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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.