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 76
oned in the example preceding. Fig. 2 represents, on a large scale, the heels of the principal and common rafters; the corniceas secured to the look-out joists; and the sheathing as prepared for the metal. Fig. 3 shows thejunction of the tops of the principals with the cast-iron head; and Fig. 4… … SoservthalisL.tS\ .Ihil* SPIRES; THEIR ORIGIN AND STYLE. 41 characterize the cemetery, at the same time that they preserved the figure of thecross in then- ground plans, the better to denote the Christian temple? Hence, per-haps, the origin of spires, and the subsequent introduction of pinnacles,…
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