EditorialWinds and alignment and division of streets, Direction of the Winds and Orientation of the Streets afterwards, p. 26-27, 1684, Vitruvius, Claude Perrault: Les Dix Livres d'Architecture de Vitruve. Paris: chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1684.
EditorialTangent Sight, Attachment or Orientation Mounted to the Back of the Slot Elevation, The support is provided with a hook that engages in a square notch in the lock elevation, and is tightened with a screw from behind. It is a short square iron bar on to...
EditorialSurveying with ropes_1, Orientation of the Ropes for a Right Angle Construction Using a Right Angle Triangle, Lot Scale, Woodcut, p. 97, (Liber quintus), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (graveur sur bois), 1556, Georgius Agricola: De re metallica libri XII: quibus...
EditorialSurveying with ropes_2, Orientation of Ropes for Right-angled Construction Using Rectangular Triangles, Lot Scale, Woodcut, p. 98, (Liber quintus), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (graveur sur bois), 1556, Georgius Agricola: De re metallica libri XII: quibus offic...
EditorialTangent Sight, Attachment or Orientation Mounted to the Back of the Slot Elevation, The support is provided with a hook that engages in a square notch in the lock elevation, and is tightened with a screw from behind. A short square iron bar on top of a...
EditorialTangent Sight, Attachment, or Orientation Mounted to the Back of the Slot Elevation, for this the support is provided with a cam which engages in the lock elevation and is tightened with a screw from behind. The set-up bar is a short square iron bar, o...
EditorialSurcoat (Jinbaori), Edo period (1615?1868), 17th century, Japan, Body: China, for the European market, late 16th?17th century; silk velvet, cut and voided, 36 5/8 x 27 1/8 in. (93.0 x 68.9 cm), Costumes, Samurai jinbaori were frequently made from expen...
EditorialBronze front loading gun, left-hand section, Left-hand section of a front-loader's cross section. Annular grape with a ridge on it. There is a dent in the ridge (instead of a hole). Closed hole with rectangular cut-out. Foundry mark between breech mark...
EditorialCopy in Reverse Design Orientation: Based on the Group of Reclining Figures at Left in Domenico Beccafumi's Scene of Moses Striking the Rock in the Pavement of Siena Cathedral.
EditorialOctopus vulgaris, Print, The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) is a mollusc belonging to the class Cephalopoda. Octopus vulgaris is the most studied of all octopus species. It is considered cosmopolitan, that is, a global species, which ranges from the...
EditorialComposition, July 1923-1924, oil on canvas, 41.5 x 33.4 cm, signed lower right: TH v D '24, inscribed on the back of the stretcher by the artist (?): THEO VAN DOESBURG and indication of the image orientation with two arrows and HAUT, Theo van Doesburg,...
EditorialOctopus vulgaris, Print, The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) is a mollusc belonging to the class Cephalopoda. Octopus vulgaris is the most studied of all octopus species. It is considered cosmopolitan, that is, a global species, which ranges from the...
EditorialA compass rose. Used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions: North, East, South and West. 18th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia.
EditorialCopy in Reverse Design Orientation: Based on the Group of Reclining Figures at Left in Domenico Beccafumi's Scene of Moses Striking the Rock in the Pavement of Siena Cathedral.
EditorialA compass rose. Used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions: North, East, South and West. 18th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia.
EditorialCopy in Reverse Design Orientation: Based on the Group of Reclining Figures at Left in Domenico Beccafumi's Scene of Moses Striking the Rock in the Pavement of Siena Cathedral.
EditorialThe New York Drawing Book, Containing a Series of Original Designs and Sketches of American Scenery, by F. Palmer, No. 1, 1847, Illustrations: lithography, 8 3/8 ? 11 5/8 in. (21.3 ? 29.5 cm), Books, Frances Flora Bond Palmer (American (born England), ...
EditorialThe Long Road ? Argilla Road, Ipswich, ca. 1898?1912, Color woodcut, image: 4 1/4 x 7 1/16 in. (10.8 x 17.9 cm), Prints, Arthur Wesley Dow (American, Ipswich, Massachusetts 1857?1922 New York State), The horizontal orientation of this landscape is unus...
EditorialSurcoat (Jinbaori), Edo period (1615?1868), 17th century, Japan, Body: China, for the European market, late 16th?17th century; silk velvet, cut and voided, 36 5/8 x 27 1/8 in. (93.0 x 68.9 cm), Costumes, Samurai jinbaori were frequently made from expen...
EditorialA compass rose. Used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions: North, East, South and West. 18th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia.
EditorialMizrach (" East"), a decoration hung on the walls of a home or synagogue to indicate the direction or orientation for prayer, i. e. facing east towards Jerusalem. From Poland. Symmetrical paper cutout with ink and tempera, 43 x 34 cm.