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 368
^ largerthan the bead, and is placed among the base mouldings. GRECIAN MOULDINGS. 325 whereas the bead is never placed there, but on the capital orentablature; the torus, also, is seldom carved, whereas thebead is ; and while the torus among the Greeks is frequentlyelliptical in its form, the bead… … Fig. 191. The curves of mouldings, in Roman architecture, weremost generally composed of parts of circles; while those ofthe Greeks were almost always elliptical, or of some one ofthe conic sections, but rarely circular, except in the case ofthe bead, which Avas always, among both Greeks and…
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