The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 415
c-nl of the force communicatedto Ibo llying-butlrcss by ihe driftof llie vauUino;, which force wouldproceed unrestrained to u, if thepinnacle were removed, andweuld consequently drive overthe wall-butlress in thai direc-tion. p—f. The direct downward force of the fravily of the pinnacle,he active… … pinnacles, which are vulgarly considered merely as ornaments, becamethe most refined instruments in the economy and security of ecclesias-tical and other buildings, and like the position of the human head, hada most material influence upon the stiffness and activity of the whole frame. With this…
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