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 668
lled, when penJentives are to be formed in wood. 2091. 7o cove the ceiling of a square room with conical pendentives. Let ABC (Jip- 732.)be half the plan of the room, and DFE the half plan of the curb, at whose top the ribsare all fixed. The hyperbolical arclies ayb, Lhc on each of the four sides… … Fig. 732. 2002. To find the springing lines of the preceding pendentives, the section in one of the verti-cal diagonal planes being given. Bisect the diagonal LK (fig. 733.) at the point N by tlieperpendicular NW, which make equal to the height of the cone, and draw the sides LWand K\V. Bisect the…
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