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Excerpt from The Principles of Architecture, Containing the Fundamental Rules of the Art, in Geometry, Arithmetic, and Mensuration, Vol. 3 of 3: With the Application of Those Rules to Practice; The True Method of Drawing the Ichnography and Orthography of Objects, Geometrical Rules for Shadows, Also the Five Orders of Architecture
On this subject many able authors have already written; but the plan \i have fol; lowed is different from theirs. It has not been so much my object to entertain the eye by a multitude of descriptive Drawings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
