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 196
struck from two centres. Take as aninstance the scotia in the Boric order, the height for which being given, divide it into three, andon the line which separates the upper of these parts from the two lower, and perpendicular to thefillet, inscribe the centre for the first quarter circle; the same… … THE PROPORTIONS OP THE ORDERS. 107 but in so obscure and cursory a manner, that his meaning has not been clearly under-stood; and several of the modern architects, intending to conform themselves to hisdoctrine, have made the diameters of their columns greater in the middle than at thebottom of the…
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