The science of aesthetics; or, The nature, kinds, laws, and uses of beauty (1872)
Day, Henry Noble, 1808-1890 · New Haven, Conn., C.C. Chatfield & co. · leaf 248
re at first plain, but in process of time werecovered by ribs. But the crossing vaults may beformed of segments less than a semi-circle, as in theGothic or pointed style. Still further, as thesegroins or ribs are the supporting parts of the vault,so that all the intervening parts of the vault may,… … SPECIAL LAWS 21/ Upon them ; and these coverings may be laid acrossin flat stretches from rib to rib, or may be of otherform convex or concave. The whole interior ap-pearance of the vault may thus be diversified indefi-
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