The New Practical Builder and Workman's Companion, Containing a Full Display and Elucidation of the Most Recent and Skilful Methods Pursued by Architects and Artificers ... Including, Also, New Treatises on Geometry ..., a Summary of the Art of Building ..., an Extensive Glossary of the Technical Terms ..., and The Theory and Practice of the Five Orders, as Employed in Decorative Architecture |
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... roofs , several modes are brought forward , for the first time , interesting , both with respect to the disposition and joining of the timbers ; and the examples which are given will be found of the greatest utility to the practical ...
... roofs , several modes are brought forward , for the first time , interesting , both with respect to the disposition and joining of the timbers ; and the examples which are given will be found of the greatest utility to the practical ...
Page 106
... ROOFS , & c . depend entirely upon their Sections , or upon their Covering , or upon both . This branch of carpentry , from its being subjected to geometrical rules , and described in schemes or diagrams upon a floor , sufficiently ...
... ROOFS , & c . depend entirely upon their Sections , or upon their Covering , or upon both . This branch of carpentry , from its being subjected to geometrical rules , and described in schemes or diagrams upon a floor , sufficiently ...
Page 121
... ROOFING . THE ROOF is that part of a building raised upon the walls , and extending over all the parts of the interior , in order to protect its contents from depreda- tion , and from the severities and changes of the weather . The ROOF ...
... ROOFING . THE ROOF is that part of a building raised upon the walls , and extending over all the parts of the interior , in order to protect its contents from depreda- tion , and from the severities and changes of the weather . The ROOF ...
Page 122
... roof , as it is called : so that the section made by a plane , perpendicular to the ridge , is every where an isosceles triangle , the vertical angle of which is the top of the roof . This form is very advantageous , as it regards ...
... roof , as it is called : so that the section made by a plane , perpendicular to the ridge , is every where an isosceles triangle , the vertical angle of which is the top of the roof . This form is very advantageous , as it regards ...
Page 123
... roofs may be covered with them , from the pyramidal equilateral Gothic down to the gently inclined Greek pediment . With regard to the present practice , the proportion of the roof depends on the style of the architecture of the edifice ...
... roofs may be covered with them , from the pyramidal equilateral Gothic down to the gently inclined Greek pediment . With regard to the present practice , the proportion of the roof depends on the style of the architecture of the edifice ...
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ABCD abscissa adjacent angles altitude angle ABD annular vault axes axis major base bisect called centre chord circle circumference cone conic section conjugate contains COROLLARY 1.-Hence cutting cylinder describe a semi-circle describe an arc diameter distance divide draw a curve draw lines draw the lines edge ellipse Engraved equal angles equal to DF equation equiangular figure GEOMETRY given straight line greater groin homologous sides hyperbola intersection join joist latus rectum less Let ABC line of section meet multiplying Nicholson opposite sides ordinate parallel to BC parallelogram perpendicular PLATE points of section polygon PROBLEM produced proportionals quantity radius rectangle regular polygon ribs right angles roof segment similar triangles square straight edge subtracted surface Symns tangent THEOREM timber transverse axis triangle ABC vault vertex wherefore
Popular passages
Page 27 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and one side equal to one side, viz.
Page 20 - The areas of two triangles which have an angle of the one equal to an angle of the other are to each other as the products of the sides including the equal angles. D c A' D' Hyp. In triangles ABC and A'B'C', ZA = ZA'. To prove AABC = ABxAC. A A'B'C' A'B'xA'C' Proof. Draw the altitudes BD and B'D'.
Page 51 - The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base and its height: A = bx h.
Page 15 - AXIOMS. 1. Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another. 2. If equals be added to equals, the wholes are equal. 3. If equals be taken from equals, the remainders are equal.
Page 15 - LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Page 28 - ... angles of another, the third angles will also be equal, and the two triangles will be mutually equiangular. Cor.
Page 81 - C' (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) 112. In any plane triangle, the sum of any two sides is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles is to the tangent of half their difference.
Page 80 - The sine of an arc is a straight line drawn from one extremity of the arc perpendicular to the radius passing through the other extremity. The tangent of an arc is a straight line touching the arc at one extremity, and limited by the radius produced through the other extremity.
Page 28 - After remarking that the mathematician positively knows that the sum of the three angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles...
Page 22 - The perpendicular is the shortest line that can be drawn from a point to a straight line.