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A39015 An Excellent introduction to architecture being a book of geometrical practice, which is the first degree of all arts : wherein is contained variety of examples of that admirable science ... 1679 (1679) Wing E3801; ESTC R40565 16,859 19

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and mark it with A. B. C. D. then sawe it Diagonal-wise that is from the corner C. to B. with two equal parts then draw the one piece there of three foot backwards towards the corner B. then the line A. F. shall be four foot broad and so shall the line E. D. also hold four foot broad by this means you shall have your door A. E. F. D. seven foot long and four foot broad and you shall yet have the three-corner'd pieces marked E. B. G and C. F. and C. left for some other use IT hapneth many times that a Workman hath an eye or round Window to make in a Church as in ancient times they used to make them and he doubted of the greatness thereof which if he will make after the rules of Geometry he must first measure the bredth of the place where he will set it and therein he must make a half Circle which half Circle being inclosed in a Quadrangle then he shall finde the Center by two Diagonal lines then he must draw two lines more which shall reach from the two lowermost corners above the Center and touch the just half of the Circle above and where the said lines cut through the Diagonal lines there you must make two Perpendicular lines which Perpendicular lines shall shew the wideness of the desired window the list about it may be made the sixth part of the Diameter being round in bredth IF a Workman will make a gate or door in a Temple or a Church which is to be proportioned according to the Place then he must take the wideness within the Church or else the bredth of the wall without if the Church be small and have Pilasters or Pillars within it then he may take the wideness between them and set the same bredth in a four square that is as high as broad in which four square the Diagonal lines and the two other cross cutting lines will not only shew you the wideness of the door but also the places and points of the ornaments of the same door as you see here in this Figure And although it should fall out that you have three doors to make in a Church and to that end cut three holes yet you may observe this proportion for the smallest of them And although gentle Reader the cross cutting thorow or dividing is innumerable yet for this time lest I should be too tedious I here end my Geometry FINIS A CATALOGUE of some Books and Prints as are Printed for Robert Prick and are to be sold at his Shop in White-cross-street and likewise at the Golden Lion at the Corner of New-Cheapside near Bethlehem A New Treatise of Architecture according to Vitruvius Wherein is discoursed of the five Orders of Columns viz. The Tuscan Dorick Ionick Corinthian and Composite Divided into seven Chapters Which declare their different Proportions Measures and proper Names according to the Practice of the ancient Architects both Greeks and Romans as also of their Parts general and particular necessary in the building of Temples Churches Palaces Castles Fortresses and all other Buildings with their Dependents As Gates Arches-Triumphant Fountains Sepulchres Chimneys Cross-bard Windows Portals Platforms and other Ornaments serving as well for the beautifying of Buildings in Cities as for necessary Fortifications of them Designed by Julian Mauclerc Lord of Ligneron Mauclerc Brossandiere and Remanguis Whereunto are added the several Measures and Proportions of the famous Architects Schamozzi Palladio and Vignola with some rules of Perspective The whole represented in fifty large Prints enriched with the rarest Ornaments of Antiquity and Capitals of extraordinary greatness with their Architraves Frieses and Cornishes proportionable A New Book of Architecture wherein is represented fourty Gates and Arches Triumphant Composed of different Inventions according to the Five Orders of Columns viz. The Tuscane Do●ick Ionick Corinthian and Composite By Alexander Francine Florentine Engineer in Ordinary to the French King With a Discription of each Figure The Art of Fair Building Represented in several Vprights of Houses with their Ground-plots fitting for persons of several Qualities Wherein is divided each Room and Office according to their most convenient occasion with their Heights Depths Lengths and Breadths according to Proportion With Rules and Directions for the placing of Doors Windows Chimneys Beds Stairs and other conveniencies with their just measures for their best advantage both of Commodiousnes Health Strength and Ornament Also a Description of the Names and Proportions of the Members belonging to the framing of the Timberswork with Directions and Examples for the placing of them By Pierre le Muet Architect in Ordinary to the French King and Surveyor of his Designs and Fortifications in the Province of Picardy A Book of Architecture containing Cieling-pieces Chimney-pieces and several sorts useful for Carpenters Joyners Carvers Painters invented by J-Barber GETHINGS Redivivus or the Pens Master-piece Being the last Work of that Eminent and Accomplished Master in this Art Containing Examples of all curious Hands written and now in practice England and the Neighboring Nations With necessary Rules and Directions towards the attaining of Fair Writing Also Directions for making the best Pens and several sorts of very good Ink as black red green yellow and purple and how to write with Gold and Silver and to polish it to make it glister Likewise how to Etch or Engrave a Coat of Arms Figure or Posie on Silver Copper Brass Iron or hardned steel With an Appendix Shewing the exact manner of making all sorts of Bonds Letters of Attorney Releases Scripture-Stories in large sheets as Adam and Eve Abraham offering up his son Isaac Elisha fed by Ravens with the woman of Samaria the Judgment of Solomon between the two Harlots Susanna and the two Flders Queen Esther c. and several others of the and New Testam