An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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... NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD BY O. JEWITT , AND NEARLY TWO HUNDRED OTHER WOODCUTS . NEW EDITION . LONDON : LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . ΒΆ 5875 " CONTENTS BOOK I. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE . 1876 .
... NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD BY O. JEWITT , AND NEARLY TWO HUNDRED OTHER WOODCUTS . NEW EDITION . LONDON : LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . ΒΆ 5875 " CONTENTS BOOK I. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE . 1876 .
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... nearly the same as that of Tiryns . Pausanias mentions a gate on which two lions were sculptured , to which the name of the Gate of the Lions has been given ( fig . 13. ) These are still in their original position . It is situate at the ...
... nearly the same as that of Tiryns . Pausanias mentions a gate on which two lions were sculptured , to which the name of the Gate of the Lions has been given ( fig . 13. ) These are still in their original position . It is situate at the ...
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... nearly a square of 700 yards long and broad ; its south - west angle being connected with the north - west angle of the mounds of Amran by a high ridge nearly 100 yards in breadth , This is the place where Beauchamp made his ...
... nearly a square of 700 yards long and broad ; its south - west angle being connected with the north - west angle of the mounds of Amran by a high ridge nearly 100 yards in breadth , This is the place where Beauchamp made his ...
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... nearly impossible to extract one of the bricks whole . The other parts of the summit of the hill are occupied by immense fragments of brickwork , of no determinate figure , tumbled together and converted into solid vitrified masses , as ...
... nearly impossible to extract one of the bricks whole . The other parts of the summit of the hill are occupied by immense fragments of brickwork , of no determinate figure , tumbled together and converted into solid vitrified masses , as ...
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... Nearly all are constructed with sun - dried bricks , the public edifices only being built with burnt bricks ; the roofs , mostly flat , have terraces , whereon the inhabitants sleep during several months of the year . According to ...
... Nearly all are constructed with sun - dried bricks , the public edifices only being built with burnt bricks ; the roofs , mostly flat , have terraces , whereon the inhabitants sleep during several months of the year . According to ...
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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 depth describe diameter dome Doric order draw edifices ellipsis employed entablature equal erected examples extrados feet girder given Gothic granite half horizontal inches intercolumniations joints length lime limestone marble mortar mouldings nave oolite ornaments palace parallel parallelogram perpendicular piece piers placed plane plates portico Portland stone Prop proportion pyramid quarries radius rectangle ribs right angles right line Roman Roman architecture Rome roof 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 weight whereof width wood