Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- SECTION I Of the Projects of Bridges with the Design, estimate, &c
- SECTION II Of the Arches
- SECTION III Of the Piers
- SECTION IV The Force of the Water, &c
- SECTION V Of the Terms or Names of the various parts peculiar to a Bridge, and the Machines, &c. used about it; disposed in alphabetical order
SECTION III - Of the Piers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2015
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- SECTION I Of the Projects of Bridges with the Design, estimate, &c
- SECTION II Of the Arches
- SECTION III Of the Piers
- SECTION IV The Force of the Water, &c
- SECTION V Of the Terms or Names of the various parts peculiar to a Bridge, and the Machines, &c. used about it; disposed in alphabetical order
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- The Principles of BridgesContaining the Mathematical Demonstrations of the Properties of the Arches, the Thickness of the Piers, the Force of the Water against Them, etc., pp. 45 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014First published in: 1772