. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. oj Eag Kp» t7-9 6-G6-9 5-34-56-04-5 6-24-5 4-9 5-8 2-92-9 2-12-2 2-0193-2 Belov Jug. IlCt. 11-8 10-59-8 9-25-17-551 9-0 & 9 i 7-4 7-99-4 4-5 4-3 2-4 2-7 2-62-43-9 5-34-53-9 2-9 264-94-9 8-1 7-5 & 7-lOi 1326 GLOSSARY. Oblique One that is greater or less than a right angle. : Oblique-angled Triangle. One that has no right angle. Oblique Arches. Such as cross an opening obliquely to the front face of them. Oblique Line. One which stan
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. oj Eag Kp» t7-9 6-G6-9 5-34-56-04-5 6-24-5 4-9 5-8 2-92-9 2-12-2 2-0193-2 Belov Jug. IlCt. 11-8 10-59-8 9-25-17-551 9-0 & 9 i 7-4 7-99-4 4-5 4-3 2-4 2-7 2-62-43-9 5-34-53-9 2-9 264-94-9 8-1 7-5 & 7-lOi 1326 GLOSSARY. Oblique One that is greater or less than a right angle. : Oblique-angled Triangle. One that has no right angle. Oblique Arches. Such as cross an opening obliquely to the front face of them. Oblique Line. One which stands, in respect to another, at a greater angle than ninetydegrees. Oblong. A rectangle of unequal dimensions, Obskevatory. (Fr.) A building for the reception of instruments and other matters forobserving the heavenly bodies. The observatory at Paris, from the designs of Perrauit,is a noble building, but, we believe, is universally admitted to be very ill suited to thepurposes for which it was built. A regular observatory is one where instruments arefixed in the meridian, whereby, with the assistance of astronomical clocks, the right. Fig. 1428. hbcensions and declinations of the heavenly bodies are determined, and tiius motion,time, and space are converted into measures of each other. On the observations anddeterminations made in such establishments they are therefore, to maritime states, ofvital importance, and ought to be liberally endowed by their govarnments. As thesubject will be better understood by a plan, we subjoin, 1428, a plan and elevationof the observatory at Edinburgh. The general form of the plan, as will bo tlioreinBeen, is a Greek cross, 62 feet long, terminated at its feel by projecting liexastyle porti-coes, which are 28 feet in front, and surmounted by pediments. The interspcting limbsof the cross at their intersection are covered by a dome 13 feet diameter, wiiich traversesround horizontally, and under its centre a pier of solid masonry is brought up
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