An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... lime cement of great tenacity . The tops of the walls have been broken down , and they may have been much higher . Contiguous to this ruin is a heap of rubbish , whose sides are curiously streaked by the alternation of its materials ...
... lime cement of great tenacity . The tops of the walls have been broken down , and they may have been much higher . Contiguous to this ruin is a heap of rubbish , whose sides are curiously streaked by the alternation of its materials ...
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... lime cement was more generally used than bitumen or clay ; - indeed , Niebuhr says that the bricks laid in bitumen were easily separated , but that where mortar had been employed , no force could detach them from each other without ...
... lime cement was more generally used than bitumen or clay ; - indeed , Niebuhr says that the bricks laid in bitumen were easily separated , but that where mortar had been employed , no force could detach them from each other without ...
Page 48
... lime , which externally covers the stone . 112. The great pyramid of Cholula ( fig . 78. ) , the largest and most sacred temple in F.g. 78 . Mexico , appears , at a distance , like a natural conical hill , wooded , and crowned with a ...
... lime , which externally covers the stone . 112. The great pyramid of Cholula ( fig . 78. ) , the largest and most sacred temple in F.g. 78 . Mexico , appears , at a distance , like a natural conical hill , wooded , and crowned with a ...
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... lime , plaster , and stones , carried up in a sort of casing , which is removed when the work is set Fig 88 VIEW OF DAMASCUS From want of good timber , the rooms are narrow . The mosques are by no means worthy of notice . Fez , an ...
... lime , plaster , and stones , carried up in a sort of casing , which is removed when the work is set Fig 88 VIEW OF DAMASCUS From want of good timber , the rooms are narrow . The mosques are by no means worthy of notice . Fez , an ...
Page 108
... lime ; but the weight of the cupola was diminished by the levity of its substance , which consists either of pumice - stone that floats in the water , or of bricks from the Isle of Rhodes , five times less ponderous than the ordinary ...
... lime ; but the weight of the cupola was diminished by the levity of its substance , which consists either of pumice - stone that floats in the water , or of bricks from the Isle of Rhodes , five times less ponderous than the ordinary ...
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15th century aisles arch architect architecture axis base beam breadth bricks building built called cast iron Castle cathedral cement centre of gravity chapel choir church circle circumference colour columns construction Corinthian order cube cubic foot curve decorated describe diameter dome Doric order draw edifices ellipsis employed entablature equal erected examples extrados feet flange front girder Gothic granite half height horizontal inches joints length lime limestone marble material mortar mouldings nave obtained oolite ornaments palace parallel parallelogram perpendicular piers placed plane plates portico Portland stone Prop proportion pyramid quarries radius rectangle ribs right angles right line Roman Roman architecture Rome roof sand sandstone side similar sofite solid square stone strength style surface tangent temple thickness tiles timber tons tower transepts triangle upper vault vertical Vitruvius voussoirs walls whereof width wood