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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 208

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fountain onfhe Place Sulpice, at Paris, tookplace lately.The monument represents Bossuet, F6nelon,Flechier, and Massillon, the size of life, andin their episcopal robes seated in meditation.The water is poured from four urns into thefirst basin,—from which it overflows into asecond and third. Four… … METHOD OF STRIKING A SEMI-ELIPTICAL ARCH WITHOUT EMPLOYING THE COMPASS. The above diagram represents tlie planadopted by Rennie in drawing the arches ofthe New London Bridge. It is first necessaryto draw the springing line, a h, and then todetermine the height of the arch, at the sametime setting…

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