The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
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The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
Author
Blome, Richard, d. 1705.
Publication
London :: Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ...,
1686.
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Subject terms
Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
Sports -- Great Britain.
Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Science -- Early works to 1800.
Hunting -- Early works to 1800.
Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28396.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.
Pages
Of the DORICK ORDER.
THe Dorick Column is Octuple, or Eight-fold
in its thickness, so that its heighth must be
of 16 Models.
The Figure marked C, represents the Dorick
Order whose parts are thus marked: A, The
Grove or hollowing of the upper List. B, the [ 30] Dentils or Teeth. C, The Capital of the Triglyph.
D, the Triglyph in which those parts that are
framed inwards are called Flutes, or Hollows,
and the Square place of the Friese between the
Triglyphs is called a Metops. E, the Props, or
little Bells. F, the Cimatium. And G, the Annu∣lets,
Bands or Lists. This Figure represents the
Base and Pedestal of the said Order.
They give one Model to the Base, and one to
the Capitals, and by consequence the Shaft of the [ 40] Column is to be 14 Models, The Column must
be of 1 ⅔ Model in heighth. The parts of the
Base are as followeth.
Parts.
Projecting.
The Plinth
6
5
The Torus
4
5
The Roundel, or Baston
1
2 ¾
The Cincture of the Base
1
2
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