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Side 8
... feet in diameter , and between it and the interior smaller circle is a space of about 9 feet . Within this smaller circle , which is half the height ( 8 feet ) of the exterior one , was a portion of an ellipsis formed by 5 groups of ...
... feet in diameter , and between it and the interior smaller circle is a space of about 9 feet . Within this smaller circle , which is half the height ( 8 feet ) of the exterior one , was a portion of an ellipsis formed by 5 groups of ...
Side 20
... feet between the flights . 48. Forty - two feet from the landing , at B , are two large portals and two columns ( originally four ) . The bottom of the first is covered with two blocks of stone , which fill The second por- two thirds of ...
... feet between the flights . 48. Forty - two feet from the landing , at B , are two large portals and two columns ( originally four ) . The bottom of the first is covered with two blocks of stone , which fill The second por- two thirds of ...
Side 21
... feet from the portals , southward , is another stair- case of two flights ( lettered C ) , one west and the other east . On the top of the ramp of the steps are some foliages , and a lion tearing to pieces a bull , in bas - relief , and ...
... feet from the portals , southward , is another stair- case of two flights ( lettered C ) , one west and the other east . On the top of the ramp of the steps are some foliages , and a lion tearing to pieces a bull , in bas - relief , and ...
Side 132
... feet ; the transept is nearly 334 feet long ; the height of the nave 153 feet , and that of the sides aisles 96. Between the period of the beginning of the edifice and that in which its completion was entrusted to Brunel- leschi , many ...
... feet ; the transept is nearly 334 feet long ; the height of the nave 153 feet , and that of the sides aisles 96. Between the period of the beginning of the edifice and that in which its completion was entrusted to Brunel- leschi , many ...
Side 160
... feet long and 60 feet in height . The towers at the angles just mentioned rise to the height of 200 feet . This façade , like the others , has five stories of windows , which necessarily of themselves , from the way in which they are ...
... feet long and 60 feet in height . The towers at the angles just mentioned rise to the height of 200 feet . This façade , like the others , has five stories of windows , which necessarily of themselves , from the way in which they are ...
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Populære avsnitt
Side 6 - In taking two stations having the same value, the one to the north and the other to the south of...
Side 316 - The angle at the centre of a circle is double of the angle at the circumference upon the same base, that is, upon the same part of the circumference.
Side 16 - The western face, which is the least elevated, is the most interesting on account of the appearance of building it presents. Near the summit of it appears a low wall, with interruptions, built of unburnt bricks, mixed up with chopped straw or reeds, and cemented with clay-mortar of great thickness, having between every layer a layer of reeds ; and on the north side are also some vestiges of a similar construction.
Side 375 - As 360 is to the degrees in the arc of the sector, so is the area of the whole circle to the area of the sector.
Side 17 - ... in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which is broken and irregular, and rent by a large fissure extending through a third of its height.
Side ix - Vive, vale ; si quid novisti rectius istis, Candidus impertí ; si non, his utere mecum.
Side 51 - Twenty-five years, and above three millions sterling, were employed by the founder: his liberal taste invited the artists of Constantinople, the most skilful sculptors and architects of the age; and the buildings were sustained or adorned by twelve hundred columns of Spanish and African, of Greek and Italian marble. The hall of audience was...
Side 372 - PROBLEM I. To find the area of a parallelogram, whether it be a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, or a rhomboides.
Side 199 - The taste of all these stately mansions was that bastard style which intervened between Gothic and Grecian architecture; or which perhaps was the style that had been invented for the houses of the nobility, when they first ventured on the settlement of the kingdom after the termination of the quarrel between the Roses, to abandon their fortified dungeons, and consult convenience and magnificence...
Side 216 - What the back-ground is in painting, in architecture is the real ground on which the building is erected ; and no architect took greater care that his work should not appear crude and hard, that is, that it did not abruptly start out of the ground without expectation or preparation.