Descrição do livro
The Modern Builder's Guide by Minard Lafever is a 19th‑century reference work for carpenters and architects. It collects Lafever's revised guide to building, with substantial original content and numerous extracts from established treatises, including Nicholson's Carpenter's New Guide and New Practical Builder. The book foregrounds geometry as the foundation of practical carpentry and provides definitions, problems, and plates to teach workmen to apply mathematical principles to carpentry, joinery, framing, and structural details. It covers joinery, masonry, plastering, and architectural geometry, and includes extensive illustrated material—ninety copper-plate engravings—demonstrating methods for erecting perpendiculars, inscribing polygons, describing conics, constructing arches, domes, ellipses, and more. The Preface explains Lafever's aim to assist beginners and practitioners, and the text is organized to balance theoretical principles with hands‑on techniques for builders, carpenters, and draughtsmen.
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