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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, Vol. 3AT the northern extremity of the city of Glasgow, on an elevated and solitary spot, to which the noise of the busy swarming town scarcely penetrates, stands the Cathedral of St. Mungo, the noblest iunmutilated specimen of ecclesiastical architecture in Scotland. To reach it the traveller has to pass through a line Of sordid filthy streets, and its first appearance is n...

Excerpt from The Power of Form Applied to Geometric Tracery: One Hundred Designs and Their Foundations Resulting From One DiagramThe Author of this treatise was first in the field to, prove, that not only was the whole detail of Gothic Architecture founded upon geometric law, but that the power of design still remained with us, waiting only for its application. In addressing himself to the learner, for whose especial use his labours here are i...

Excerpt from The Power of Form Applied to Geometric Tracery: One Hundred Designs and Their Foundations Resulting From One DiagramThe Author of this treatise was first in the field to, prove, that not only was the whole detail of Gothic Architecture founded upon geometric law, but that the power of design still remained with us, waiting only for its application. In addressing himself to the learner, for whose especial use his labours here are i...

Excerpt from Illustrations of Geometric Tracery: From the Paneling Belonging to Carlisle CathedralPlate II. Tar: specimen at the side of this Plate is the simplest as regards the division of the Panel into sixteen squares, consisting in fact of sixteen equal quatrefoils. The construction of Plate II. Is equally simple, being composed of the arc of a circle, whose boundary touches the points I), c, d, the centre a. Being determined by the inter...

Excerpt from Architectural Illustrations and Description: Of the Cathedral Church at DurhamThis Volume was commenced with the intention of making the architectural illustrations to one scale. This intention has been carried out, and the Work as now completed, forms, together with a similar Work by the Author upon the Cathedral Church at Carlisle, the first series of parallel representations of two English Cathedrals ever given to the public. I...

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Excerpt from The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, Vol. 1 The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, 1845 to 1852. With the publication of the latter work, which is undoubtedly his greatest achievement, and has secured for his name a permanent place amongst the great draughtsmen of last century, his labours as an author ceased, and thenceforth pro fessional demands upon his services monopolised his efforts. T...

Excerpt from Architectural Illustrations, History and Description of Carlisle Cathedral Nearly all the works hitherto produced on the English Cathedrals, bear more of a picturesque than of an Architectural character, and are there fore nearly useless for the practical uses of the architect. For this purpose, says the reviewer of Carter's Ancient Architecture', in the Quarterly Review, simple but accurate outlines, on an intelligible scale, ar...

Excerpt from Architectural Illustrations, History and Description of Carlisle Cathedral Nearly all the works hitherto produced on the English Cathedrals, bear more of a picturesque than of an Architectural character, and are there fore nearly useless for the practical uses of the architect. For this purpose, says the reviewer of Carter's Ancient Architecture', in the Quarterly Review, simple but accurate outlines, on an intelligible scale, ar...

About the Book Books about Mathematics consider problems that encompass quantity, space, and rates of change, test theories by with mathematical methods, derive statistical models that estimate actual activity to improve our understanding of real phenomena. Titles include: A Brief Introduction to the Infinitesimal Calculus, A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics, A Memoir of the Theory of Mathematical Form, A treatise on the theory and solu...

Excerpt from Architectural Illustrations and Description: Of the Cathedral Church at Durham This Volume was commenced with the intention of making the architectural illustrations to one scale. This intention has been carried out, and the Work as now completed, forms, together with a similar Work by the Author upon the Cathedral Church at Carlisle, the first series of parallel representations of two English Cathedrals ever given to the public....

Excerpt from The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, Vol. 1 The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, 1845 to 1852. With the publication of the latter work, which is undoubtedly his greatest achievement, and has secured for his name a permanent place amongst the great draughtsmen of last century, his labours as an author ceased, and thenceforth pro fessional demands upon his services monopolised his efforts. T...

Excerpt from The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, Vol. 3 AT the northern extremity of the city of Glasgow, on an elevated and solitary spot, to which the noise of the busy swarming town scarcely penetrates, stands the Cathedral of St. Mungo, the noblest unmutilated specimen of ecclesiastical architecture in Scotland. To reach it the traveller has to pass through a line of sordid filthy streets, and its first appearance is ...

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