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 156
THE FIVE ORDERS OP ARCHITECTURE. 87 THE PRINCIPAL PARTS OF THE DORIC ORDER. An altitude having been proposed for this whole order, divide it first into tenparts, of which allow two to the pedestal, and make the remaining eight parts intofive; then give four of these to the base, shaft, and capital…
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