The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 13
representation is not neces-sary. Any other isometrical projection, as making it an angle of30°, would be extremely tinsigbtly. This method of projectingwould, in many cases, be very convenient in drawing the nuts andliolts of machinery, when exhibited isometrically. Tlie abovemetliod could be… … The celebrated Giants Stairs, Ducal Palace, Venice (named fromthe two colossal statues, by Sansovino, of jMars and Neptune on itssummit), is formed out of the beautiful wliite marble of Carrara,and deservedly admired on account of the splendid effect of thematerial, as also the art tliat has been…
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