An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 1089 Seiten |
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... parallelogram ( taking the cubit at 1824 ft . , being the length generally assigned to it ) of about 109 ft . by 363 ft . , being as nearly as may be two thirds of the size of the church of St. Martin's in the Fields . In front was a ...
... parallelogram ( taking the cubit at 1824 ft . , being the length generally assigned to it ) of about 109 ft . by 363 ft . , being as nearly as may be two thirds of the size of the church of St. Martin's in the Fields . In front was a ...
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... parallelogram , whose longest side is 620 ft . by 440 , formed by a wall and counterforts , both of which are embattled . The height of the wall varies from 35 to 60 ft . , and its thickness is 8 ft . The whole of the quadrangular space ...
... parallelogram , whose longest side is 620 ft . by 440 , formed by a wall and counterforts , both of which are embattled . The height of the wall varies from 35 to 60 ft . , and its thickness is 8 ft . The whole of the quadrangular space ...
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... parallelogram , whose external length was from four to five times its breadth . It was surrounded by seats ranged above each other and bounded by an exterior wall , probably pierced with arcades . The spina was about two thirds the ...
... parallelogram , whose external length was from four to five times its breadth . It was surrounded by seats ranged above each other and bounded by an exterior wall , probably pierced with arcades . The spina was about two thirds the ...
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... parallelogram with four large towers at the angles , not projecting externally , but inserted into the side walls . Of this æra is also , at Swansea Castle , the lofty perforated parapet or arcade , through which the water was conveyed ...
... parallelogram with four large towers at the angles , not projecting externally , but inserted into the side walls . Of this æra is also , at Swansea Castle , the lofty perforated parapet or arcade , through which the water was conveyed ...
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... parallelogram , whose extremities form the transepts , 250 ft . in length from north to south . At the eastern end of the first parallelogram is a hemicylindrical recess , containing the altar , and extending 20 ft . further eastward ...
... parallelogram , whose extremities form the transepts , 250 ft . in length from north to south . At the eastern end of the first parallelogram is a hemicylindrical recess , containing the altar , and extending 20 ft . further eastward ...
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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.