An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 1089 Seiten |
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... Vitruvius at some length in the opening chapter of his first book . They are , perhaps , a little too much swelled , though the Roman in some measure qualifies the extent to which he would have them carried . " For , " he ob- serves ...
... Vitruvius at some length in the opening chapter of his first book . They are , perhaps , a little too much swelled , though the Roman in some measure qualifies the extent to which he would have them carried . " For , " he ob- serves ...
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... Vitruvius wrote , who gives us nothing more than the belief of the architects of his time . The point is not , at this time , likely to be answered satisfactorily ; if it could , it might be important , as leading to the solution of ...
... Vitruvius wrote , who gives us nothing more than the belief of the architects of his time . The point is not , at this time , likely to be answered satisfactorily ; if it could , it might be important , as leading to the solution of ...
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... Vitruvius ( lib . ii . cap . 1. ) , who judged of it from its ruins . The fabulous Cadmus for we cannot belp 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 belp 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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