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 48
/>/^ /and when more than three diameters, arcEostyle, or columnsthin-set. In all the orders, when there are four columns inone row, the arrangement is called tetrastyle; when thereare six in a row, Jiexasiyle ; and when eight, octastyle. 37.—To De§cribc the Ionic Volute.—Draw a perpen-dicular… … Fig. 3.—Grecian Ionic. 22 ARCHITECTURE. describe the eye of the volute; about o, the centre of theeye, draw the square, r t i 2, with sides equal to half thediameter of the eye, viz. 2^ min., and divide it into 144 equalparts, as shown at Fig. 5. The several centres in rotation areat the angles…
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