The American house carpenter. A treatise on the art of building. Comprising styles of architecture, strength of materials, and the theory and practice of the construction of floors, framed girders, roof trusses, rolled-iron beams, tubular-iron girders, cast-iron girders, stairs, doors, windows, mouldings, and cornices; together with a compend of mathematics. A manual for the practical use of architects, carpenters, stair-builders, and others (1880)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879, Hatfield, O. P., ed · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 23
these stands not far from the city of Cairo:its base, which is square, covers about ii|- acres, and itsheight is nearly 500 feet. The stones of which it is builtare immense—the smallest being full thirty feet long. 4.—Architecture in Oreece.—Among the Greeks, archi-tecture was cultivated as a fine… … GRECIAN AND ROMAN BUILDINGS. 7 the art at this period: the encouragement and support ofPericles stimulated them to a noble emulation. The beauti-ful temple of Minerva, called the Parthenon, erected uponthe acropolis of Athens, the Propyleum, the Odeum, andothers, were lasting monuments of their…
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