A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 392
the Work; Syri.i,4th Century. including in the largest sense the rougli shapingof Rubble and the like, and also the finisliing ofthe foces as well as the beds and joints of stonesfor building. The .scientific part of it, as thedrafting and calculation, is called Stereotomy.The finer tooling of the… … Stone Cutting, Fig. 2: Dkt.4.il of a Te.mIle atThebes. Masonry the different processes are described. It is proposed to give here a brief historical account of building by means of .stone, and, 646 STONE CUTTING therefore, Stone Setting (wliicii see) must beconsidered together with stone cutting,…
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