Recreations in science and natural philosophy: Dr. Hutton's translation of Montucla's edition of Ozanam [electronic resource] (1844)
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717, Montucla, Jean Etienne, 1725-1799, Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823, Riddle, Edward, 1788-1854, Crosby, Thomas Boor, Sir, 1830-1916 former owner, St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School Library former owner, King's College London · London, printed for Thomas Tegg... · leaf 582
reat truly delightful. What surprised those who had any knowledge of architecture, was, how the roof of this small edifice would be constructed without tie-beams ; for however light it might be, the walls were so thin, that any common roof must have overturned them. The artifice, said to have been… … were bound together by two cross pieces at l and M. It is evident that these four inclined pieces can have no tendency to separate, or to exert any lateral thrust on the walls upon which the beams a b and a b are placed : for they cannot separate without rendering the angle n more obtuse. For this…
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