Architectural proportion, illustrated : a new system of proportion showing the relation between an order of architecture and a building of any kind : rules for finding the height of foundations, bases, water-tables, window sills, doors, windows, balustrades and superimposed stories : width of doors, windows, architraves, pilasters and posts : height and projection of entablatures, cornices, and all exterior finish : also height of bases, window-stools, height and projection of stucco cornices, and interior finish, with many valuable tables (1880)
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e section. Examples of lateral or vertical proportion taken from old palaces or churches, builthundreds of years ago, may be interesting as a study, but they have no practical valuein the architecture of this country. From an author and architect of the present day, we have an example now beforeus… … ARCHITECTURAL PROPORTION. 21 It must be remembered that feet and inches are not the units of measure in archi-tecture, and that all heights and widths should first be found in diameters and minutes,and the height of superimposed stories by the multiplication or division of the unit ofmeasure used…
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