The next is a continuation of the abaci of the capitals. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
These rest on triple shafts, with carved caps and rounded abaci. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
Alas, abaci have already been commoditized --you can own your own franchise!. From Wordnik.com. [Dyscalculia: If I were king...] Reference
Studies have shown that kids who master abaci have a better comprehension of math. From Wordnik.com. [Dyscalculia: If I were king...] Reference
But the angle shafts that carry the arch have carved capitals and square-moulded abaci. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
The abaci to the capitals are square; but now there are no shafts or bases in the jambs. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
These abaci, which are finely moulded, are not more than about two and a half inches in depth. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
The abaci are new, and the angle-shafts and bases as well, but the capitals are old, though decayed. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
Above them may be seen the square abaci which are so much used in all the later work in the cathedral. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
Digital calculators notwithstanding, some abaci can still be found in a grade school classroom or two. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy Twists On Ancient Technology] Reference
The restored abaci of the capitals, like the originals, are some of them square, others irregular octagons. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
The capitals to these are carved, and have square abaci, rounded at the angle, as they pass over the capitals. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
But the abaci of its capitals run from the jambs across to the buttresses, as is the case with those of the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
It rises as far up as to the string-course formed by the continuation of the abaci of the capitals in the two small single-light windows. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
The windows have label-moulds over them, and the abaci of the capitals are carried across the buttresses on either side as a string-course. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
The abaci are square and moulded, while the caps proper carry at their angles rudely carved volutes such as occur in the White Tower, London. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
The two forces come to rest in the abaci, which, as the crowning members of the columns, directly carry the weight of the entire entablature. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The vaulting shafts and the abaci are of Purbeck marble, and the capitals are of stone, as are also the corbels, bases, mouldings, and bosses. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
But now the southern one has abaci, capitals, angle-shafts, and base, which are thirteenth-century work, and the early label-mould has been changed. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
The arcade consists of low massive circular piers, with cushion capitals and plain chamfered abaci, which support semi-circular arches of one order also chamfered. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
It shows, too, in the second bay, the level of the old abaci which ran across from each capital in the window jambs and stopped against the sides of the buttresses. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
Also in the West, this kind of mathematics came fully to surface only after seven centuries or so, in the famous Liber abaci of Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) around 1200 A.D. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Still sell abaci too, since they're often used to teach mathematics to kids. From Wordnik.com. [No. 2 The Abacus] Reference
This book, Liber abaci, written in 1202 by Leonardo of Pisa, more popularly known as Fibonacci. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The +capitals+ were tall and slender, concave in profile, with heavy square or octagonal abaci. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
The architrave rests upon them, and, as in Greece and Egypt, its immediate weight is borne by abaci. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1] Reference
The columns stand less than their diameter apart, and the abaci are so broad that they nearly touch. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two] Reference
There is absolutely no decorative element except four shallow masks beneath the abaci of the pilasters. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
The fi rst appearance of the Hindu-Arabic numerals, as mentioned earlier, was in Fibonacci's book, Liber abaci, in 1202. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
But for a few square abaci which are used, and for the appearance of early tracery in the side windows, it might pass as a purely Lancet building. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine] Reference
The abaci of the Early English capitals in the main arcade are of Barnack stone, which is harder than clunch and so more suitable for bearing a weight. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey] Reference
Heriger is also the author of an arithmetical work entitled "Regulæ de numerorum abaci rationibus", which was published by Bubnov in the "Opera. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
A few English round abaci in some bays of the triforium, the external heaviness and simplicity, all make the early Gothic of Fécamp little more than pointed Romanesque. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine] Reference
In socialist Mexico, laptop abaci you. From Wordnik.com. [‘CJ7′ STILL LOOKS PRETTY WEIRD] Reference
Leybourn, Thomas, 187 fi nding patterns among, 104-107 Liber abaci (Leonardo of Pisa. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The abaci of the capitals are square. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
1202 in the book, Liber abaci, by Leonardo of Pisa (otherwise known as Fibonacci). From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
There are lots of old computers, some restorations, handheld video games, abaci, calculators, adding machines, and software. From Wordnik.com. [Autism Hub] Reference
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