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The Artisan, or, Mechanic's instructor : containing a popular, comprehensive and systematic view of the following sciences ... also biographical notices of eminent scientific men, enriched by portraits : with many interesting and valuable articles relating to the mechanical and useful arts : the whole intended as a companion to the institutes (1825)

Carey, George G · London : Printed for William Cole · leaf 206

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ts, one of TUSCAN ORDER. which is given to the abacus , one to the eschinus , and the third to the hypotrache- lian and apophygis ; the architrave has two faces, with an aperture between them of about an inch and a half for the admission of air to preserve the beams; the lower face is vertical upon… … * A torus or tore is a large semicircular moulding, each order of columns ‘has a peculiar entablature used in the base of a column. divided into’ three principal parts, the architrave, + The abacus is the upper’m ember of’ a column, the frieze, and the cornice. See fig. page 175. ; which serves as…

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