Practical draughtsmen's work, with numerous engravings and diagrams (1903)
Hasluck, Paul N. (Paul Nooncree), 1854-1931, ed · Philadelphia, D. McKay · leaf 93
ts. They knew that a long column wasscientifically inaccurate if made parallel, owing to the greaterweight carried by the lower part, and they thought the straighttaper looked ugly, so they made their columns with a slight 90 PBAGTIGAL DRAUGHTSMENS WORK, swell in the diameter between the two ends.… … Fig. 148.—Entasis of Column. merely ornamental; besides that, a column with a straight taperappears to be slightly hollow at the sides. In the illustration (Fig. 148), the diameters are taken verylarge in proportion to the length, in order to show the methodand result more clearly. There are…
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