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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 569

An illustration from A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive, 1902, leaf 569 — Fig. 88 (See Fig. 87). extending the groin and transverse ribs to thecentre. 966 VAULT (6) Figures 66, 67, show how irregular spacesmay be covered by vaults with eight cells. (c) Covering an octagonal space. Figure 68is a plan, and 69 a section, of an octagonal vaultwhose internal angles are… … Fig. 80 (Pl.\n). (d) Figure 70 has the same ribs as (c), butthey are groin ribs, and there are sixteen cells. (e) Figure 71, Welsh vaulting. (./) Figure 72, groin ribs not meeting at thecentre, but terminating at the angles of an octa-gon— York cathedral. (g) Figures 73, 74, eight semicircular…

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