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 61
is a RightLine, continud from the Pointof Incidence, or Refraftion,perpendicularly to theRefraftingSurface along the further Me-dium. Spiral Axis^ in Architecture^ isthe Axis of a twilled Columndrawn fpirally, in order totrace the Circumvolutions with-out. Axis of the Ionic Capital^ isa Line… … . The Cylinder is called ihtAxi^;theCircle the Perkrochium\ andthe Radit^ or Spokes, which arefometimes fitted immediately in-to the Cylinder, without anyCircle, the Scytala. Round the Axis winds a Rope,whereby the Weight, ^c. is tobe raisd. The /ixis in Peritrochio takesPlace in the Motion of…
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