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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 224

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structural conditions from whichthe steep medi;ieval pitch was evolveil are ex-plained in Wood, Construction in ; Part I., wherealso may be found some notice of the flat ter-raced roofs of troj)ical or semi-tropical countries.Denfer, .T., Cmirerture des Jidijires; Ardoises,Tniles, Metaiix, Matieres… … Roof of Stone ; Sl.abs resting on Cross Walls CARRIED UN Arches. For similar trausverso arclies see cuts Mcuinstic Arcllitecture; Pointed Architecture. 354

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