An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 1089 Seiten |
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... edifices ; and Rome , until its citizens equalled kings in their wealth , had no monuments worthy to be remembered by the historian , or transmitted as models to the artist . 66. Not the least important of the causes that combined in ...
... edifices ; and Rome , until its citizens equalled kings in their wealth , had no monuments worthy to be remembered by the historian , or transmitted as models to the artist . 66. Not the least important of the causes that combined in ...
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... edifices ( fig . 46. ) , however , more commonly known by the names of Cheops , Cephrenes , and Mycerinus , are ... edifice , which vary from 5 ft . to 30 ft . in length , and from 3 ft . to 4 ft . in height . From this platform Dr ...
... edifices ( fig . 46. ) , however , more commonly known by the names of Cheops , Cephrenes , and Mycerinus , are ... edifice , which vary from 5 ft . to 30 ft . in length , and from 3 ft . to 4 ft . in height . From this platform Dr ...
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... edifices , they were not altogether devoid of splendour . Examples of them from sculp- tures may be seen in Mr. Wilkinson's work above quoted . In the towns they of course varied in size and plan . The streets were narrow and laid out ...
... edifices , they were not altogether devoid of splendour . Examples of them from sculp- tures may be seen in Mr. Wilkinson's work above quoted . In the towns they of course varied in size and plan . The streets were narrow and laid out ...
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... edifices of China . The system of carpentry ( if such it can be called ) thus induced , will be noticed under the second head ; but we must here observe , that lightness is not at all incompatible with essential solidity of construction ...
... edifices of China . The system of carpentry ( if such it can be called ) thus induced , will be noticed under the second head ; but we must here observe , that lightness is not at all incompatible with essential solidity of construction ...
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... edifices of several stories , isolated and circular , square and polygonal on the plan , built of different materials in different places . 3. Ta , which are sepulchral towers . These are commonly massive , of strange but simple forms ...
... edifices of several stories , isolated and circular , square and polygonal on the plan , built of different materials in different places . 3. Ta , which are sepulchral towers . These are commonly massive , of strange but simple forms ...
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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.