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 657
Fig. 449. fillet of the ovolo in Fig. 446 is an example of this. On theright hand side of the column, the face of the fillet is muchdarker than the cove directly under it. The reason of this … is, the face of the fillet is deprived both of direct and re-flected light, whereas the cove is subject to the latter. Otherinstances of the effect of reflected light will be seen in theother examples. CONTENTS. PART I. SECTION I. —ARCH ITECTU RE Art. I. Building defined, p. 5.—2. Antique Buildings…
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