An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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... PROPORTION . • • .885 • 889 · 25. Proportions of Rooms 891 · CHAPTER II . SECT . 1. Effect or Use of Numbers 2. Early Use of Geometry and of a Measure 3. The Vesica Piscis 4. Modern Investigations 5. Mouldings 6. Principles of Proportion ...
... PROPORTION . • • .885 • 889 · 25. Proportions of Rooms 891 · CHAPTER II . SECT . 1. Effect or Use of Numbers 2. Early Use of Geometry and of a Measure 3. The Vesica Piscis 4. Modern Investigations 5. Mouldings 6. Principles of Proportion ...
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... proportion , upon the pre- servation of character , and in various other respects . Nature , in one sense , is the model upon which architecture is founded ; not as a subject of imitation , but as presenting for imitation principles of ...
... proportion , upon the pre- servation of character , and in various other respects . Nature , in one sense , is the model upon which architecture is founded ; not as a subject of imitation , but as presenting for imitation principles of ...
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... proportions of their columns . Thus the Doric order borrowed its proportion , strength , and beauty from the human figure . On similar principles , they afterwards built the temple of Diana ; but in this , from a desire of varying the ...
... proportions of their columns . Thus the Doric order borrowed its proportion , strength , and beauty from the human figure . On similar principles , they afterwards built the temple of Diana ; but in this , from a desire of varying the ...
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... proportions . This portico must have been erected about 338 B. C. , and after it the Ionic order seems to have been more ... proportion became nearly in the ratio of 2.3 to 1 . The simplicity which flowed from these arrangements in the ...
... proportions . This portico must have been erected about 338 B. C. , and after it the Ionic order seems to have been more ... proportion became nearly in the ratio of 2.3 to 1 . The simplicity which flowed from these arrangements in the ...
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... PROPORTION . 935. DEFINITIONS . - 1 . The ratio of one quantity to another is the number of times which the first contains the second ; thus the ratio of 12 to 3 is four , because 12 contains 3 four times ; or , more universally , ratio ...
... PROPORTION . 935. DEFINITIONS . - 1 . The ratio of one quantity to another is the number of times which the first contains the second ; thus the ratio of 12 to 3 is four , because 12 contains 3 four times ; or , more universally , ratio ...
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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