Principles of Architecture: Comprising Fundamental Rules of the Art, with Their Application to Practice: Also Rules for Shadows for the Five Orders

H. G. Bohn, 1848 - 280 sider

A plane figure having two of its sides or bounds by straight lines	1

To draw a tangent to a circle or any segment of a circle through	7

To make a square equal to a given rectangle	12

Upon a given straight line to construct any regular polygon	15

Having the two axes or any two conjugate diameters to describe	18

20 ABINGDON STREET WESTMINSTER	20

PROB	22

THE SECTIONS OF SOLIDS	28

To find the solidity of a sphere or globe	124

To find the solidity of a wedge	125

To find the solidity of a spheroid the fixed and revolving axes being given	126

OF AN ANNULUS OR CYLINDRIC RING Definitions	127

To find the solidity of the hollow frustum of a cone	128

CONVEX SURFACES OF SOLIDS 1 To find the convex surface of a cylinder	129

To find the convex superficies of the segment of a sphere	130

To find the convex superficies of an annulus	131

Notation	36

Definition	38

MENSURATION	42

SIMPLE DIVISION	45

PROB	50

COMPOUND DIVISION	56

COMPOUND PROPORTION	62

To reduce fractions of different denominations to equivalent ones	68

OF SUPERFICIES	96

To find the area of a trapezoid	103

PBOB PAGE xv Given any two parallel chords in a circle and their distance between	108

Given a chord of a circle and its distance from the centre to find	109

The diameter of a circle being given to find the area	110

To find the area of a sector of a circle	111

To find the area of the segment the chord and height of the arc being given	112

To find the area of a circular zone being that part of a circle lying between two parallel chords and the parts of a circle intercepted by the chords	114

To find the diameter of a circle whose area shall be in a given pro portion to the area of a circle whose diameter is known	115

To find the area of an ellipsis the transverse and conjugate axes being given	116

To find the area of the frustum of a parabola the two parallel ends and their distance between being given	117

To find the solidity of a prism	118

To find the solidity of a pyramid	120

To find the solidity of the frustum of a pyramid	121

To find the solidity of the frustum of a cone	122

OF A PRISMOID Definition	123

27	135

To measure any irregular figure wholly bounded by right	142

To measure an angle chimney when the plane of its breast intersects	153

To measure roofing and partitions	161

Definitions or explanations of the terms	165

To describe a torus	171

68	173

PROB PAGE	175

To describe a spiral line in the manner of Goldmans volute to	182

THE EFFECT OF DISTANCE	189

Given the ichnography and elevation of a polygonal ring or a ring	195

Observations on vertical mouldings when situate on the light side of an object	206

ORNAMENTS	216

Friezes and enrichments for plane surfaces and of winding foliage	222

To draw the elevation of a Grecian Doric order	230

Another Doric order found in Asia near the temple of Minerva Polias	237

Of a Doric order found at Albano near Rome	244

To measure a groin standing upon a rectangular plan	248

GRECIAN AND ROMAN MOULDINGS	251

The principal parts of the Grecian Doric compared with the Roman	262

From the temple of Apollo Didymæus near Miletus in Ionia	269

From the theatre of Marcellus at Rome	271

THE COMPOSITE ORDER	277

plane

Tittel	Principles of Architecture: Comprising Fundamental Rules of the Art, with Their Application to Practice: Also Rules for Shadows for the Five Orders
Forfatter	Peter Nicholson
Redaktør	Joseph Gwilt
Utgave	6
Utgiver	H. G. Bohn, 1848
Original fra	New York Public Library
Digitalisert	13. mai 2008
Lengde	280 sider

Eksporter sitat	BiBTeX EndNote RefMan