A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 74
Pendentive, Fig. 7. straight line above across the angle, in order tocarry an octagonal vault or a spire, or as pre-paratory to a circle which shall carry a dome.The forms are various, and will be 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 PBNDENTIVB foniiing an ootagon, suniiouiited Ii)- a sixteen-sidetl polygon, which carries a couc. Corbel courses,h——I ^ I——I— -^ Fig. 9. Coinmou in—pJ—I—I ■ I—I—tl -|- England as the…
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