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 55
CHAPTER IV. Origin of the Pointed Arch. THE builders could not but notice these effects, and seek means to prevent them. The first means they seem to have used are these : having a nave whose transverse arches were 7.00 m. in diameter at the intrados, and 0.60 c. thick as to their voussoirs, and… … Fig. 17. observed (Fig. 1G) that the segment b' c' in sinking pressed the lower segment a' b' on the intrados at b', and the key at the extrados in e', they concluded that the curvilinear triangle V e' c' was useless, and that the diagonal b' e' alone offered any resistance ; then, starting
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