A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · 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-;le. Figs. 7, 8. Common iu tombs in India,90 PBNDENTIVB forming an Dctiigcm, surmounted by a sixteen-sided polygon, wliicli carries a cone. Corbel courses,Fig. 9. Common inEngland as the sup-port of the four non-cardinal sides of…
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