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)
d of the arch A,since this would produce a very great error in the moulds D and E; for it is evident that asection of the body-vault, perpendicular to its axis, must be less in height than the verticalsection B, since this is oblique to the cylinder. Hence, the moulds being drawn by meansof…
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