The carpenter's new guide; a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery, treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, groins, niches, roofs, and domes, and containing a great variety of original designs. Also a full exemplification of the theory and practice of stair building, cornices, mouldings, and dressings of every description. Including also some observations and calculations on the strength of timber (1854)
fig. 3. Tui.4. SKYLIGHTS. 45 PLATE 30. SKYLIGHTS. Oiie of the Rihs being given, the square Plan of the Opening or Well, and the octagon Curh above,to find the Ribs and the springing Curve, lohere the Foot of the Ribs come, so that the interiorFinish may correspond with the Curb. Fig. 1. Let C be…
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