The geometry and optics of ancient architecture :
illustrated by examples from Thebes, Athens and Rome /
by John Pennethorne, esq., assisted in the drawing and colouring of the plates and in the arrangement of the text by John Robinson, architect.
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London and ; Edinburgh :
Williams and Norgate,
1878.
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Notes: | T.P. Chandler library. A development of the assertion of Virtuvius that horizontal lines in ancient architecture were all convex lines. Physical description: xvi, 249 p., 55 plates (part col.) : ill ; 57 cm. (fol.) more |