An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 1089 Seiten |
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... edifices were reared of unparalleled magnificence and solidity . It seems likely , that bricks would have been in use for a considerable period before stone was employed in building . They were , probably , after moulding , merely ...
... edifices were reared of unparalleled magnificence and solidity . It seems likely , that bricks would have been in use for a considerable period before stone was employed in building . They were , probably , after moulding , merely ...
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... edifice is another , in some respects similar , except that it is thirty - eight feet longer . It is marked N on the ... edifices on the banks of the Nile and those on the plain of Merdasht . In both , this member , forming , as it were ...
... edifice is another , in some respects similar , except that it is thirty - eight feet longer . It is marked N on the ... edifices on the banks of the Nile and those on the plain of Merdasht . In both , this member , forming , as it were ...
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... edifices : hence the pave- ments appear masses of marble , than which nothing more durable or beautiful can be conceived . No cement appears to have been used , but the stones seem to have been connected by cramps , whose removal ...
... edifices : hence the pave- ments appear masses of marble , than which nothing more durable or beautiful can be conceived . No cement appears to have been used , but the stones seem to have been connected by cramps , whose removal ...
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... edifices are not of the highest antiquity , says ( 3rd Discourse ) , " that they prove an early connection be- tween India and Africa . The pyramids of Egypt , the colossal statues de- scribed by Pausanias and others , the Sphinx and ...
... edifices are not of the highest antiquity , says ( 3rd Discourse ) , " that they prove an early connection be- tween India and Africa . The pyramids of Egypt , the colossal statues de- scribed by Pausanias and others , the Sphinx and ...
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... edifices are grand ; in that of India , the infinite subdivision into parts gives an air of littleness to the largest build- ings . In Egypt , solidity is carried to the extreme ; in India , there is not the slightest appearance of it ...
... edifices are grand ; in that of India , the infinite subdivision into parts gives an air of littleness to the largest build- ings . In Egypt , solidity is carried to the extreme ; in India , there is not the slightest appearance of it ...
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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.