This section is from the book "The Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia", by Luke Hebert. Also available from Amazon: Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia.
Ichnography, in Drawing, is synonymous with the term plan, such as is exhibited in an horizontal section of a building, or of any other object, which shows the true dimensions to a scale of every part in the line or plane through which the section is made.
 
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