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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 628

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nnlhi being then drawn, the horizontal lineik will determine the lower edge of fenext caisson upwards. Proceed in thisway for tlie next from I and so on.The heights of the caissons thus ob-tained, being transferred to the sectionon I he quadrant ef, will give the ])ro-portionate diminution thereon… … It <J C (] li 20C)2d. V. Of Gothic Vaulting. — Professor Willis, in his valuable essay On theFaults of the Middle Aues, printed in the Transactions of the Institute of BritishArchitects, 1842, states that every rib should spring as a separate and independent arch,and that the elliptic curves…

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