Shaw's Civil Architecture: Being a Complete Theoretical and Practical System of Building ... Also, A Treatise on Gothic Architecture, with Plates, &c, by Thomas W. Silloway and Geoorge M. Harding ... |
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A B C abacus arch architrave axis baluster base beam bisect breadth bridge building called capital cavetto centre cima circle column Composite order cone construction Corinthian Corinthian order cornice curve cutting cylinder dentils describe diameter distance divided doors Doric Doric order draw lines draw the lines edge elevation ellipsis entablature feet fillet floor foot frieze frustums given Gothic architecture Grecian ground line height hyperbola ichnography inches intercolumniation intersection Ionic join joists length metopes module moulding number of equal ogee ornaments ovolo parallel pedestal perpendicular piers pilasters placed plane of projection plaster Plate points prism PROBLEM projecture proportion radius rafters right angles right line Roman roof seat semicircle shadow shaft side solid square stone straight line surface tangent temple thickness timber tion triglyphs Tuscan Tuscan order upper vertical plane Vitruvius wall
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Page 10 - Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 76 - ... and suppose the rays to proceed from the right to the left hand of the object, and parallel to a vertical plane which is inclined at an angle of forty-five degrees with the elevation of the object ; then it is plain, that since the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence, the greatest part of the rays which fall upon the horizon will...
Page 40 - The Measure of an angle, is an arc of any circle contained between the two lines which form that angle, the angular point being the centre ; and it is estimated by the number of degrees contained in that arc.
Page 40 - To divide a given line AB, into any proposed number of equal parts. From A, one end of the line, draw A c, making any angle with AB ; and from B, the other end, draw B d, making the angle AB d equal to BA c.
Page 16 - Or could the Columns be otherwise than split into distinct shafts, when they were to represent the stems of a clump of trees growing close together ? On the same principles...
Page 40 - VII. Through a given point, C, to draw a line parallel to a given line, A B. 1.
Page 167 - ... observed the expansive power of water, not only in congelation, but also in evaporation, must be well aware that when it meets with any foreign body, obstructing its escape, as oil painting, for instance, it immediately resists it, forming a number of vesicles or particles, containing an acrid lime-water, which forces off the layers of plaster, and frequently causes large defective patches, not easily to be eradicated. Perhaps, in general cases, where persons are building on their own estates,...
Page 28 - But since the friction or adhesion which resists the side motion, is usually greater than one third of the pressure, it seldom happens that the whole thrust of the arch is so oblique as not to produce a sufficient vertical pressure, for securing the stability in this respect ; and it is only necessary to make the pier heavy enough to resist the force which tends to overset it. It is not, however, the weight of the pier only, but that of...
Page 40 - Hexagon, of six sides; a Heptagon, seven; an Octagon, eight; a Nonagon, nine ; a Decagon, ten ; an Undecagon, eleven ; and a Dodecagon, twelve sides.
Page 39 - A Right angle is that which is made by one line perpendicular to another. Or when the angles on each side are equal to one another, they are right angles.