The builder's dictionary, or, Gentleman and architect's companion : explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice of the various branches thereof ... : also necessary problems in arithmetic, geometry, mechanics, perspective, hydraulics, and other mathematical sciences : together with the quantities proportions, and prices of all kinds of materials used in building ... (1734)
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), ca. 1700-ca. 1750, Devoto, John, fl. 1719-1752 · London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch ..., and S. Austen ... · leaf 273
ree Fourths to the Cima Re-verfa, one Fourth to the Filler,one and a half to the Cima Rec-ta, and a half Part to the Fillet. For the Projections, the Ogeehath one and half of thefc Parts,the upper Face of the Modil-lions in Front two, but is twoand half in Breadth, viz. a halfPart within the Naked,… … c o c o COMPOSITION, in Paint-ing, includes the Invention andDifpolition of the Figures, theChoice of Attitudes, cjf. Therefore Compofuion confiftsof two Parts; of which the onefinds out by the Means of Hif-tory, proper Objcfts for a Pic-ture; and the other difpofesthem to ^vantage. Compo0ion of…
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