A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 74
e frame of each Romanesque groined vault;that is to say, of each square of vaulting,which vaulting square may be a parallelogramof any proportion. The builder of each vault-ing sijuare must have felt, as he sprung thetransverse arches across the uave uud uimilur97 FRANCE arches along the lines of… … vaulting square his work would l)e half done.Without such diagonal arch he had the dilH-cult problem of the Roman groined vault to boimitated in inferior materials and by meansof a costly and troublesome centring of wood.With the possible diagonal arch, he must have FRANCEfelt that tlic pntlikin…
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