Civil Architecture: Or, A Complete Theoretical and Practical System of BuildingMarsh, Capen & Lyon, 1836 - 208 σελίδες |
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A B C abacus aperture arch architecture architrave astragal axis base beam bisect boards breadth bridge building called capital cavetto centre circle column Composite order construction Corinthian Corinthian order cornice curve cutting cylinder describe diameter distance divided doors Doric order echinus edge elevation ellipsis entablature equal feet fillet floor foot frame frieze front frustrums girder given Grecian ground-line height horizontal ichnography inches intercolumniation intersection Ionic joists length light metopes modillions module mould mutules OGEE ornaments ovolo parallel pedestal perpendicular pieces piers pilasters placed plane of projection plank plaster PLATE points portico PROBLEM projecture proportion radius rafters rays right angles right line Roman roof round shade shadow shaft side slates soffit solid square stone straight line surface tangent temple tenon thickness timber tion triglyph Tuscan Tuscan order upper vertical plane Vitruvius volutes wall
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Σελίδα 6 - Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Σελίδα 7 - ... multiplied experiments. In many of the fine arts, the ancients are still our masters. Architecture was an elegant art, in which antiquity excelled. The necessary and useful were all that was first sought in buildings. Luxury aimed at ornament. Hence, arose the five beautiful orders of architecture, viz. the Tuscan, the Doric, the Ionic, the Corinthian, and the Composite. The Greeks perfected this art.
Σελίδα 31 - 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 13 - Lastly, we see the reason of their studied aversion to apparent solidity in these stupendous masses, deemed so absurd by men accustomed to the apparent as well as real strength of Grecian Architecture.
Σελίδα 31 - G, terminated by the curve. 8. Conjugate diameter, is a right line drawn through the centre, parallel to a tangent at the extreme of the other diameter, and terminated by the curve.
Σελίδα 174 - Facade. The face or front of any considerable building to a street, court, garden, or other place. Facia. A flat member in the entablature or elsewhere, being in fact nothing more than a band or broad fillet.
Σελίδα 166 - ... America of an extensive span or arch, in order to suffer the ice and collected waters to pass without interruption: and for this purpose it must be observed that a wood arch may be formed of a much greater length or span than it is possible to erect one of stone; hence wooden bridges are applicable to many situations where accumulated waters, bearing down trees and fields of ice, would tear a bridge of stone from its foundation. It therefore becomes of importance to render bridges of wood as...
Σελίδα 25 - But since the friction or adhesion which resists the side motion, is usually greater than one third of the pressure, it seldom happens that the whole thrust of the arch is so oblique as not to produce a sufficient vertical pressure, for securing the stability in this respect ; and it is only necessary to make the pier heavy enough to resist the force which tends to overset it. It is not, however, the weight of the pier only, but that of...
Σελίδα 31 - Hexagon, of six sides; a Heptagon, seven; an Octagon, eight; a Nonagon, nine ; a Decagon, ten ; an Undecagon, eleven ; and a Dodecagon, twelve sides.
Σελίδα 153 - It is next put into a reverbatory furnace, to be roasted ; during which operation, it is repeatedly stirred, to facilitate the evaporation of the sulphur. When the surface begins to assume the appearance of a paste, it is covered with charcoal, and well shaken together : the fire is then increased, and the purified lead flows down on all sides into the basin of the furnace, whence it runs off into moulds prepared for its reception. The moulds are capable of receiving 154lbs.