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 226
equal parts, as atV and w; from v and w, draw v n and w o, parallel to/ c?; join nand 0, cutting q s m r ; then the angles, u n r and rot, beingeased off according to Art. 89, will give the proper curve for thebottom edge of the cylinder. A centre may be found upon whichto describe these curves… … Fig. 259. 366.— To find the position for the balusters. Place thecentre of the first baluster, (6. Fig. 260,) 5 its diameter from theface of the riser, c c?, and i its diameter from the end of the step,e d ; and place the centre of the other baluster, a, half the treadfrom the centre of the first.…
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