Rational building; being a translation of the article "Construction" in the Dictionnaire raisonne ́de l'architecture française of Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc; (1895)
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 173
157 CONSTRUCTION. to be able to make the windows higher ; second, to let the tie-beams of the trusses pass above the vaults without immoderately raising the lateral walls. They wished to copy this improvement in the Anglo-Norman provinces. There a difficulty was presented : the principle of con-… … F'g-70- but if built according to the design D, after the new French method, the project- ing rib C E had not enough rise to present a sufficient resistance; if the vault was large, there was reason to fear that this rib would give way at G, about the middle of its length. To ward off this
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