The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in four parts (1802)
Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806 · London : Printed by T. Bensley ... for W. Baynes · leaf 134
,by which the reader, if he pleafe, may form his judgment. He fays, Inthe remains of antiquity, the quantity of diminution is various ; but feldomlefa than one eighth of the inferior diameter of the column, nor more thanone fixth of it. The laft of thefe is by Vitruvius efteemed the moft… … T. SA^nUen Al^ . T^Npud tu l^ Acf din4^i^. ^t- T^hem&n 7?^c/ <^./7^/ yi^--**.i.*^ ( »03 ) Hoiv to dimlniPo any Column, from the inferior to the fuperior Diameter^ by meansof an Eiliptic Curve not exceeding in its S^vell the inferior Diameter, Fig. I. Plate XIII. is Vignolas method of…
