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The American house-carpenter; a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)

Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 286

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ows on the capital of a column. Thismay be done according to the principles explained in the examplesalready given ; a quicker way of doing it, however, is as follows.If we take into consideration one ray of light in connection withall those perpendicularly under and over it, it is evident that… … Fig. 330. nature—cutting it in the lines, a b, c d, &c., (Fig. 329,) and, inthe elevation, find, by squaring up from the plan, the lines of sec-tion which these planes would make thereupon. For instance :in finding upon the elevation the line of section, a b, the planecuts the ovolo at e, and…

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