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 272
he cylinder, and describeon o the face of the cylinder p h q ; then extend d bacross the cylinder, cutting it in I and k—giving theposition of the face of the risers, as required. Tofind the face-mould for the twists is simple and ob-vious : it being merely a quarter of an ellipse, hav-ing 0 j for… … SECTION VIL—SHADOWS. 406.—The art of drawing consists in representing solids upona plane surface : so that a curious and nice adjustment of lines ismade to present the same appearance to the eye, as does thehuman figure, a tree, or a house. It is by the effects of light, inits reflection, shade,…
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