Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture: Civil, Architecture, Naval, Building and Construction, Early and Ecclesiastical Art, Engineering, Civil, Engineering, Mechanical, Fine Art, Mining, Surveying, Etc., to which are Added Explanatory Observations on Numerous Subjects Connected with Practical Art and Science1859 - 596 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 11
... ancients used to draw their schemes and figures . Abacus , a multiplication - table , in form of a right - angled triangle . Abacus ( in oid records ) , a counting- ABB table used for calculations and schemes . Abacus major , a large ...
... ancients used to draw their schemes and figures . Abacus , a multiplication - table , in form of a right - angled triangle . Abacus ( in oid records ) , a counting- ABB table used for calculations and schemes . Abacus major , a large ...
Σελίδα 11
... Ancient edifices were built with wood , trees forming the columns ; and when architects began to build with stone , they made the columns to imitate the trunks of trees , taper- ing from their bases . Being thus originally of wood , and ...
... Ancient edifices were built with wood , trees forming the columns ; and when architects began to build with stone , they made the columns to imitate the trunks of trees , taper- ing from their bases . Being thus originally of wood , and ...
Σελίδα 11
... ancient church , a person who trimmed the lamps , prepared for the sacrament , etc. Acorn , the seed of oak : imitations of it are much used in architec- ture , and it is sometimes intro- duced instead of the egg in the Roman ovolo ...
... ancient church , a person who trimmed the lamps , prepared for the sacrament , etc. Acorn , the seed of oak : imitations of it are much used in architec- ture , and it is sometimes intro- duced instead of the egg in the Roman ovolo ...
Σελίδα 11
... ancient coins of Corinth , Sybaris , Posidonia , and the earliest Greek cities of Italy , as well as of Ionia , which were much earlier proficients in arts than those of Greece Pro- per ; and in the vases of the most archaic style ...
... ancient coins of Corinth , Sybaris , Posidonia , and the earliest Greek cities of Italy , as well as of Ionia , which were much earlier proficients in arts than those of Greece Pro- per ; and in the vases of the most archaic style ...
Σελίδα 11
... ancient Rome , a room wherein bathers anointed them- selves . Aliquot part , such part of a number as will exactly divide it without a remainder ; a part as , being taken or repeated a certain number of times , exactly makes up or is ...
... ancient Rome , a room wherein bathers anointed them- selves . Aliquot part , such part of a number as will exactly divide it without a remainder ; a part as , being taken or repeated a certain number of times , exactly makes up or is ...
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Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil ..., Τόμοι 1-2 John Weale Πλήρης προβολή - 1850 |
Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil ..., Τόμος 4 John Weale Πλήρης προβολή - 1850 |
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Σελίδα 25 - The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Σελίδα 132 - A cubit was originally the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger; which is the fourth part of a wellproportioned man's stature.
Σελίδα 11 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Σελίδα 21 - In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose; and even the construction itself should vary with the material employed, and the designs should be adapted to the material in which they are executed.
Σελίδα 280 - Jabal : he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
Σελίδα 144 - The Measure of an angle, is an arc of any circle contained between the two lines which form that angle, the angular point being the centre ; and it is estimated by the number of degrees contained in that arc.
Σελίδα 144 - A Quadrant, or Quarter of a circle, is a sector having a quarter of the circumference for its arc, and its two radii are perpendicular to each other.
Σελίδα 38 - The mercury is sustained in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the fluid in the...
Σελίδα 260 - Lego], the desk or stand on which the larger books used in the services of the Roman Catholic Church are placed : since the Reformation they have been seldom used in this country, but are occasionally employed to hold the Bible. The principal lectern stood in the middle of the choir, but there were sometimes others in different places. They were occasionally made of stone or marble, and fixed, but were usually...
Σελίδα 11 - For I perceived that, if light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the same when the eye is at rest, as when it is moving in any other direction than that of the line passing through the eye and...