Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 87
vault asa whole. But such a vault differs fundamentally from a Gothicvault. For the line of the crown of each cell is the steep seg-mental curve abm A, Figure 29. In other words, the vault asa whole is a hemisphere with its surface broken into shallowhollows like the gores of a melon. It is obvious… … this into any real likeness to a Gothic vault, it would be necessaryto reduce it to an unbroken circular plan by cutting off thescallops at its base so that it would fit into the circular drum,upon the inner surface of which it would now intersect in seriesof small arches, one for each hollowed…
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