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Pain, William (1730?-1790?) / The practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; the five orders laid down by an entire new scale.
(1792)

The method for Bending a Cornice round the internal part of a Circular body on the Spring,   p. Plate 146


Page Plate 146

Plate 146.
The method for bending a cornice round the internal part of a circular body
on a spring.
 The method for bending a cornice round a circular body external as the cornices
a on the spring draw the lines a, b to the center of the body c b then draw
the arch lines d e g f and that will be the edge of the cornice streight
when bent round the body. 


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