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 70
s upon piers of moderate thickness, pro- vided they were weighted ; for they did not think at first, that it was necessary to oppose flying-buttresses to the thrust that they believed themselves to have almost annulled, whether by the obliquity of the ogival arches, or by the broken curve of the… … tops of these flying-buttresses? There lay a diffi- culty so much the greater, since theoretical cal- culation gives no certainty on this point, and long experience alone can show it. As far as we can judge by the small number of primi- tive flying buttresses preserved, the following is the method…
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