An Encyclopædia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, 1888 - 1443 Seiten |
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... Building PAGE • 558 PAGE SECT . 1. Geometry . 264 · 2. Practical Geometry 3. Plane Trigonometry 4. Conic Sections 5. Descriptive Geometry . 6. Mensuration • 7. Mechanics and Statics . 8. Piers and Vaults . 291 296 • • • Terra - cotta 3 ...
... Building PAGE • 558 PAGE SECT . 1. Geometry . 264 · 2. Practical Geometry 3. Plane Trigonometry 4. Conic Sections 5. Descriptive Geometry . 6. Mensuration • 7. Mechanics and Statics . 8. Piers and Vaults . 291 296 • • • Terra - cotta 3 ...
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... building at Mycene , which has been called by some the Treasury of Atreus , or the tomb of his son Agamemnon mentioned by Pausanias . This building at first misled some authors into a belief that the use of the arch was known in Greece ...
... building at Mycene , which has been called by some the Treasury of Atreus , or the tomb of his son Agamemnon mentioned by Pausanias . This building at first misled some authors into a belief that the use of the arch was known in Greece ...
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... building . The opposite side is so confused a mass of rubbish , that it looks as if the ravine had been worked through a solid building . Under the founda- tions at the southern end was discovered a sub- terranean passage floored and ...
... building . The opposite side is so confused a mass of rubbish , that it looks as if the ravine had been worked through a solid building . Under the founda- tions at the southern end was discovered a sub- terranean passage floored and ...
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... building as to level , marked I , is 118 ft . distant from the columns lettered G. Some foundations are visible in front of this building , to which there is not the slightest trace of a staircase . fifty - three feet from the façade of ...
... building as to level , marked I , is 118 ft . distant from the columns lettered G. Some foundations are visible in front of this building , to which there is not the slightest trace of a staircase . fifty - three feet from the façade of ...
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... building is an application of capricious finery and patchwork , in which grotesque representations of subjects connected with their mythology often prevail : yet , in this respect , they exhibit a fertility of invention , and produce ...
... building is an application of capricious finery and patchwork , in which grotesque representations of subjects connected with their mythology often prevail : yet , in this respect , they exhibit a fertility of invention , and produce ...
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