Lectures on Architecture: Consisting of Rules Founded Upon Harmonick and Arithmetical Proportions in BuildingJ. Brindley, 1734 - 134 Seiten |
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... proper Choice for SITUATION ; Arithmetick and Har- monick Proportions applied to Prac- tice , and exemplified in Copper Plates , with neceffary Remarks and Obfer- vations , to explain the Subject treat- ed on . It is not difficult to ...
... proper Choice for SITUATION ; Arithmetick and Har- monick Proportions applied to Prac- tice , and exemplified in Copper Plates , with neceffary Remarks and Obfer- vations , to explain the Subject treat- ed on . It is not difficult to ...
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... proper Distance to view it , will always affect the ju- . dicious Eye . The intended Satire , of faying the Defigner had a View of taking in fome young Heir , is falfe Criticism ; it is rather a Pa- negyrick upon his Judgment ; it fhews ...
... proper Distance to view it , will always affect the ju- . dicious Eye . The intended Satire , of faying the Defigner had a View of taking in fome young Heir , is falfe Criticism ; it is rather a Pa- negyrick upon his Judgment ; it fhews ...
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... proper Places , ac- cording to their feveral Capacities , with refpect to the Common Concern ; from all which fome Form of Society must fpring ; Mankind could not otherwise fubfift . A SOCIETY thus form'd , for the common Good and ...
... proper Places , ac- cording to their feveral Capacities , with refpect to the Common Concern ; from all which fome Form of Society must fpring ; Mankind could not otherwise fubfift . A SOCIETY thus form'd , for the common Good and ...
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... proper Methods made ufe of in the cul- tivating of them , they gradually arrive to Maturity . They muft have fuitable Principles inftill'd , fuch which have an Affinity to the Nature of the Genius which is to be improv'd . Thofe Princi ...
... proper Methods made ufe of in the cul- tivating of them , they gradually arrive to Maturity . They muft have fuitable Principles inftill'd , fuch which have an Affinity to the Nature of the Genius which is to be improv'd . Thofe Princi ...
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... proper Intercolumniations , on- ly one Order in the Height of the Build- ing . THE Antients never exceeded three Diameters Intercolumniation , except in the Tuscan Order ; but then they never made them lefs than one Diameter and half ...
... proper Intercolumniations , on- ly one Order in the Height of the Build- ing . THE Antients never exceeded three Diameters Intercolumniation , except in the Tuscan Order ; but then they never made them lefs than one Diameter and half ...
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Seite 21 - The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears.
Seite 81 - I would call Proportion. The joint Union and Concordance of the Parts, in an exact Symmetry, forms the whole a compleat Harmony, which admits of no Medium.
Seite 94 - Double Cube — the Duplicates of 3, 2 and i — of 4, 3, and 2 — of 5, 4, and 3 — and of 6, 4, and 3, produce all the Harmonick Proportions of Rooms.82 We know that Pope was familiar with this kind of doctrine in its cosmological form.
Seite 67 - I think, our modern Way of planning Gardens is far preferable to what was us'd 20 Years ago, where, in large Parterres, you might see Men, Birds, and Dogs, cut in Trees...
Seite 21 - One fcience only will one genius fit; So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit: Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thofe confin'd to fingle parts.
Seite 169 - In detail he describes a summer-house congenial to meditation where "in the cooler hours of reflection a man might retire to contemplate the important themes of human life"; with unnecessary generosity he gives us platitudinous examples of the "noble and felicitous ideas" which might occupy the mind of an architect, a geographer, or an astronomer under such circumstances.
Seite 94 - We know that Pope was familiar with this kind of doctrine in its cosmological form. It was in fact a commonplace of the age : From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony This universal Frame began : From Harmony to Harmony Thro...
Seite 107 - ... the square root of which sum is 62 feet. If the height of the storey is 12 feet, as before mentioned, divide that 62 feet into three windows ; each window will contain 20 feet 8 inches of superficial light, and those will be found to be 3 feet 2J inches broad, and 6 feet 5 inches high, which are windows of two diameters.
Seite 97 - To find the height of the opening of the chimney from any given magnitude of a room, add the length and height of the room together, and extract the square root of that sum, and half that root will be the height of the chimney.
Seite 138 - Out-line is to be first form'd ... it is from thence the internal parts, as well as the ornamenting and disposing the proper Voids, and Decoration of the Front, are to be regulated.