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The student's instructor in drawing and working : the five orders of architecture : fully explaining the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings, for diminishing and glueing of columns and capitals, for finding the true diameter of an order to any given height, for striking the ionic volute, circular or elliptical, with finished examples, on a large scale, of the orders, their planceers, etc. and some designs for door-cases (1837)

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844 · New York : Office of the Railroad Journal · leaf 74

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with that of their conquerers, hence I accountfor the elliptic form of this member; it is a medium be! ween a hyperbolical and a circu-lar moulding. Fig. 4. Part of the annulets of the capital of the same column, no less singular intheir construction than the echinus, or other members of this… … TEMPLE OF THESEUS.

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