A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 561
Fig. 50 (Plan and Section). the main vault, but both springing from thesame level, so that the intersection is not com-plete (Figs. 22, 23, 2-i). The horizontal pro-jection of the groin line is a hyperbola. Welshvaults are unknown in Koniun work, but arecommon in Romanesque and the later… … Fig. 51 (Plan and Section). line is of double curvature. The Romans usedthis form on a grand scale, and it is quite com-mon in French Romanesque (Figs. 25, 26). (c) In segmental vaulting (Fig. 27), thecomponents may be equal or unequal. (rf) Figure 28. A segmental main vault,intersected by a…
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