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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 617

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arches. 1956. A dome is a solid, which may be con-ceived to be generated by the figure of the b isediminishing as it rises, till it becomes a point atthe summit ; and when a dome has a polygonalbase, the arches are plain arches, and the con-struction is similar to that of a groin. A dome.lceiling… … Til. MASONRY. 597

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