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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 250

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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- … Groined Vault in Westminster Abbey. nitely. Still further, more than two vaults may Iu-tersect each other, or the ribs may be of different circles, and so may arise all the modi-Fan-tracery. fications of what is Called fan-tracery vaulting. The genius of architecturaldesign thus had opened to it a…

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