Practical Geometry Applied to the Useful Arts of Building, Surveying, Gardening, and Mensuration: Calculated for the Service of Gentlemen as Well as ... or the Foundations of the Several Arts - Hardcover

Batty Langley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0331186373 ISBN 13: 9780331186376

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Practical Geometry Applied to the Useful Arts of Building, Surveying, Gardening, and Mensuration: Calculated for the Service of Gentlemen as Well as Artisans, and Set to View in Four Parts, Containing, Preliminaries or the Foundations of the Several Arts Above-Mentioned; The Various Orders of Architecture, Laid Down and Improved

To the length of the Corinthian column, Vitruvius gives nine diameters thirty minutes, and Serlio nine diameters only; at the porch of the Pantheon they are nine diameters thirty fix minutes.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0331186373
• ISBN 13: 9780331186376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 212