Word: dome
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...library building itself will be in the classic style, designed in the form of a Greek cross and surmounted by a dome. At the southern end of the cross and facing the main entrance to the university a flight of twenty-six steps 86 feet wide will rise to a portico of ten Ionic columns, 35 feet high, which will form the main entrance to the structure. This portico will be surmounted by a panel extending its entire length and filled with inscriptions. The stylobate of the main portico which will be 12 feet above the terrace, will...
...this level a platform with a railing will surround the drum of the dome, which will be of classic proportions, and whose summit will be 136 feet above the upper terrace and 152 feet above One Hundred and Sixteenth street, at the main entrance to the grounds...
...director of the Lick Observatory has received a telegram which announces that the Hon. Edwin Crossley, lately Member of Parliament for Halifax, England, proposes to present to the Lick Observatory his great three foot reflecting telescope, with its dome and all its apparatus complete. Mr. Crossley, himself an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, makes no conditions to his gift, except that his telescope when set up at Mt. Hamilton shall be called the Crossley Reflector and that the expenses of transporting the instrument and dome from England to California shall be borne by Americans...
Geological Conference. Papers: Review of Michel Levy's "Determination des Feldspaths tricliniques en plaque mince" (with illustrations), Professor J. E. Wolff; Rattlesnake Dome, Colorado (with illustratins), Mr. F. P. Gulliver. Petrographical Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers: Review of Michel Levy's "Determination des Feldspaths tricliniques en plaque mince" (with illustrations), Professor J.E. Wolff; Rattlesnake Dome, Colorado (with illustratins), Mr. F. P. Gulliver. Petrographical Laboratory...