Sloan's constructive architecture : a guide to the practical builder and mechanic. In which is contained a series of designs for domes, roofs and spires, with a number of plates showing the interior construction and finish of bays, window shutters, sliding doors, etc., designed expressly for the joiners use; choice examples of the five orders of architecture, selected fromthe most celebrated specimens of antiquity, with the figured dimensions of their height, projection and profile, and their division into parts,; to which is added a number of useful geometrical problems, examples of groins, centering for arches, diagrams of stair lines, with architraves, door mouldings, etc., the whole being accompanied by explanatory text and general essays, to which is appended a copious glossay (1859)
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884 · Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 152
.JT … ^TUE FIVE ORDERS OF ARC UITECTURE. 85 GENERxVL REMARKS ON THE TUSCAN ORDER. The Tuscan is the simplest and most solid of the orders. It is composed offew and large parts, and is of a construction so massive that it seems capable of sup-porting the heaviest burdens; whence it is by Sir Henry Wotton…
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