. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. Fig. s:. and verticals from their corresponding ones aa, bb, cc, 8ic. on the plan, and similarlythe shadow of the capital on the wall. In this example, as in those immediately preceding,the employment of sectional lines parallel to the direction of the light is again use of thetn is most especially .seen in the examjile of the Corinthian capital whichfollows. As a general rule, it may be hinted to the student of sciography, that


. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. Fig. s:. and verticals from their corresponding ones aa, bb, cc, 8ic. on the plan, and similarlythe shadow of the capital on the wall. In this example, as in those immediately preceding,the employment of sectional lines parallel to the direction of the light is again use of thetn is most especially .seen in the examjile of the Corinthian capital whichfollows. As a general rule, it may be hinted to the student of sciography, that in the diffi-culties that may occur, they will be most expeditiously and clearly resolved by the useof the sectional lines, whereon we have thought it proper so much to dilate. 2483. The Corinthian capital in fig. will require little more than inspection toimderitand the construction of its sciography ; and all that we think necessary to particu-larise are the developed projections A, B, C, D, E, F of the abacus and the leaves, whereonthe termination of the shadows at angles of 54° 44, as explained in Jig. 856., give theirrespective


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