An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 407
e thicknessof domes. All writers, so far as he had seen, consideredthe dome as a ease of vaulting on principles deducedfrom their experiments on arches, which was a moderepudiated by him. Figs. 5906 and 5»0c. 1499?. The causcs of the stability of domes, as thus put forward for the first time, by…
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