Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 179
ance, than the mere arching over of an opening in a wall ; and though its primary elements are simple, I must beg you to follow me over easy ground, — and ground already trodden in my previous lectures, — because these early and simple steps are needful to the due appreciation of the more advanced… … angles to its plane (Fig. 313), the second may be conceived as generated by the revolu- tion of an arch upon its vertical axis (Fig. 314).
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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