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 58
ast done. There was no thought ofwedges, the vault was thought of as a con-tinuous convex shell, although it was executedby assembling cakes of mud of a uniform size.The Romans developed this idea of the homo-geneous vault in their magnificent concreteconstruction. The wedge arch might have had an… … late, and it seems to m tig have been evolved in ^L eg Egypt after the brick *■* 12. vault had been built for some two thousandyears. Prof. Flinders Petrie describes a tomb de-pendent on a fine first-dynasty mastaba atGizeh as vaulted, and Prof. Garstang hasexcavated a number of vaulted tombs…
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