. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. </ ??<(? 6( s/V _.,.,, ^. 8:V2 THKOIIY OF ARCHITECTURE. Book II. boundaries of shade thereon, and contiiiuini; them, or otherwise, for the otlier parts, asshown in tlie diagram. 2481. In Jig. 857., which representsthe capital of a column, a similar me-thod is used to that last mentioned forobtaining the shades and shadows, bymeans of aaaaand hbhb, which areshown on the elevation by aaua andbbhb. We apprehend this will be un-derstood by little
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. </ ??<(? 6( s/V _.,.,, ^. 8:V2 THKOIIY OF ARCHITECTURE. Book II. boundaries of shade thereon, and contiiiuini; them, or otherwise, for the otlier parts, asshown in tlie diagram. 2481. In Jig. 857., which representsthe capital of a column, a similar me-thod is used to that last mentioned forobtaining the shades and shadows, bymeans of aaaaand hbhb, which areshown on the elevation by aaua andbbhb. We apprehend this will be un-derstood by little more than inspec-tion of it. It is obvious that the means hereadopted for obtaining the lines ofshadow are precisely similar to thoseused in the preceding example. Inthis, however, the sections of the ca-pital parallel to the direction of thelight are made on the elevation, andit will be seen that many of them arenot required to obtain an accurateboundary of the lines of shadowsought; for after having obtainedtliose points from which the longestshadow falls, and on the other sidethose where the line of shadow com-mences, a curve line of an elliptical nature connects the j
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