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 180
ogee; one-fourth to its fillet; one and one-fourth to the cyma-recta;and half a part to its fillet. The whole projection of the cornice is equal to its height, andbeing divided into a similar number of parts, the projections of the several membeis will be easilyapparent on inspection. On this plate… … THE FIVE ORDERS OF ARC HITEC f U RE. 99 THE riUNCirAL TARTS OF THE COMPOSITE OllDER. The given height proposed for this whole order is divided into ten parts, of whichtwo are allowed for that of the pedestal. The remaining eight parts are then dividedinto six, of which one forms the height of the…
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