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Sloan's constructive architecture : a guide to the practical builder and mechanic (1859)

Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 176

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hole projection of the base is one-fifth of the diameter, and is divided into three parts, of whichone forms the projection of the upper fillet, and two arc given to that of the upper torus. All ofthese heights and projections are fully explained in the example. On the lower part of the shaft is… … THE FIVE ORDERS OP ARCHITECTURE. GENERAL REMARKS ON THE DORIC ORDER. The Doric order, next in strength to the Tuscan, and of a grave, robust, ormasculine aspect, is, by Scamozzi, called the Herculean. Being the most ancient ofall the orders it is more primitive in its form than any of the others,…

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