A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 255
th in-sertions of coloured stucco, generally in imitationof marbles, the whole being rubbeil and finely polished. SCALA CORDONATA, or A CORDONI. A ramp or inclined plane formed into paved steps from 18 inches to .3 feet tread, with only 410 SCALE 1 to 4 inches rise, each step being thus… … SCALE. ^1. A .straight line divided intofeet and inches, or metres and centimetres, orthe like, according to a definite and stated pro-portion to reality, as one forty-eiglitli (or fourfeet to one inch), one one-thousamlth, etc.Drawings of all kinds when made by mathe-matical instnimcnts (see…
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