Architecture : an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 114
rch (which aroseas another solution of thesame problem), except that a special stone orstones have to be worked for the apex. The arch form at first introduced and loii£used in Italy must have been the semi-circular arch of cut masonry. So it was thatthe semicircular became the standard formeven… … Fig. 17. 112 ARCHITECTURE was never adopted in Rome. The dome wasbrought to the West as a factor of bath-build-ing. The hot bath was built as a sort of kilnor oven, and the only domes mentioned byVitruvius (who wrote near the beginning ofthe first century) are those required for thehot chambers of…
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