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way adopted at Serbistan andFirouzabad, and still followed in that country. On theoctagon it was not difficult to place a circular dome,which would be constructed without centering in themanner already described. In Syria another method was adopted. Large flatstones were laid across the angles,… … Fig. 9. 1 Choisy, Hist. dArchit. I. 125. CH. Ill] DOMES AND VAULTS 39 A far more scientific and beautiful way was by the Thespherical pendentive, the discovery of which, or at all pendemiveevents its use on a serious scale, constitutes the triumphof Byzantine architecture. It is arrived at in this…
