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 244
ribs. To bevel the Body-ribs. Since all the body-ribs stand perpendicular to the plan, the upper edge must be beveled tocorrespond to the rake of the groin. To do this, let the under edge 1111, at B, of the body-ribs, be beveled according to the rake, so that they may stand perpendicular; then take… … Saio^ Sloan Aich* ■Roiintlvjli lid PJujl GLOSSARY. 133 Frieze.—The middle member of the entablature of an order which separates the architrave andthe cornice. Frontispiece.—The face or fore-front of an edifice; more generally applied as a term to desig-nate the decorated entrance. Front.—A name…
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