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)
Bryan, A. J · San Francisco : A.L. Bancroft & Co., printers and lithographers · leaf 50
we haveintroduced for this work is 12 feet 9 inches above the floor line. Up to that eleva-tion the height of portico or wall entablatures is found by dividing the distance theyare elevated above the floor line by 12£—the number of diameters contained in the com-bined height of the pedestal and… … ARCHITECTURAL PROPORTION. 25 that the distance from the floor line to the entablature is 12 feet liVo inches, or 71(jIoinches less than the height just given from the standard of proportion. Then, as theaddition of tso inches to the unit of measure increases the combined height of thepedestal and…
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