An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 931
ppears to have been agreed on as the limits ; but we subjoin,from a work bv Stanislas LEveille {Considerations siir les Frontons, 4to. Paris, 1824), themethod which we consider the best for determining the height of a pediment, observing, bythe way, that a strict adherence to the ordinary rules for… … Chap. 1. of this Book. In fig. 946. we have a synoptical view of pediments of vanounextents, and as the letters applied to the central pediment will apply to all the rest, weshall restrict our description to that. Suppose the points a and b to be the extremitiesof the fillet of the corona. Then,…
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