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A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 69

An illustration from A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive, 1901, leaf 69 — Pendentive, Fig. 7. straiglit line above across the angle, in order tocari-y an octagonal vault or a spire, or as pre-paratory to a cinde which shall carry a dome.The forms are various, and will lie best under-stood if arranged as far as practicable in geo-metrical order. … Pendentive, Fig. 8. A lintel, or several lintels, laid across the an-gle. Figs. 7, 8. Common in tombs in India,90 PENDENTIVB forming an octagon, sui-niimiited by a sixteen-sided polygon, wliifli carries a cone. Corbel courses,rT~—I I——T^-^ Fig. 9. Common in ~~-J— ri - England as the sup- port of…

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