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 79
, among many other examples, in the Parthenon atAthens. The elevation, or as it is technically termed, pitch of the pediment, followed fromthe inclined sides of the roof, whose inclination depended on the climate (See sect. 20,iO).Thus authors trace from the hut the origin of the different members… … FiK. 92 tiiibes; bb tlie ridge piece or columen; c the king-post or columna oi a. roof; d d the tie-beamor tranatrtim; e the sirut or capreolu.t; ff the rafters or cavthmii; gggg the purlines or.Kinpla ; h h the common rafters or asxeres. The form of the pediment became an object ofso much…
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