The Carpenter’s New Guide: A Complete Book of Lines for Carpentry and Joinery, Treating Fully on Practical Geometry, Soffits, Groins, Niches, Roofs, and Domes, and Containing a Great Variety of Origi

Excerpt from The Carpenter's New Guide: A Complete Book of Lines for Carpentry and Joinery, Treating Fully on Practical Geometry, Soffits, Groins, Niches, Roofs, and Domes, and Containing a Great Variety of Original Designs

The next subject which regularly presents itself is Groins for the construction of Which there will be found many methods entirely new, and besides the common figures, I have shown many which are difficult of execution, and not to be found in any other author. I. Have displayed a variety of methods for Constructing spherical niches, a form more frequently wanted than the elliptic, which only has yet been explained.

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