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 200
into seven parts, the upper two of thesebeing further subdivided into five; and by these several divisions the heights of the several mem-bers are regulated. All the projections are set off from the lower or first face, and in the first two orders, eachof these is equal to one-sixth of the height;… … THE PROPORTIONS OP THE ORDERS. 109 of perfection. It must not, however, be imagined that the same general proportionswill, on all occasions, succeed. Those in our first series have been taken chieflyfrom the temples and other public structures of antiquity, and may be employed inchurches and other…
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