Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building; a general reference work .. (1912)
American School (Lansing, Ill.) · Chicago, American school of correspondence · leaf 243
must be erectedover a building which is square or rectangular in plan, in which casea new and difficult problem must be considered, namely, that of thependentives. A horizontal section taken through a dome must inevery case show a circle or possibly an ellipse. If, then, we con- 194 CARPENTRY 183… … Fig. 255. Section through Domical Roof Showing One of the Ribs same plane, unless the building is circular in plan. This is shownin Fig. 256 in which A B C D represents the section cut from thewall of the building by a horizontal plane, and the circle E F G Hrepresents the section which would be…
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