Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 502
e eye which requiresthat the weight carried and the thing which carries it shall uot beoutside the angles of an equilateral triangle. If this principle isdisregarded, as indicated in the diagrani B, the conditions of goodproportions are lost ; the eye being disturbed by a want of apparentstability,… … tained for the façade of a basilica, that is to say, a building composedof a nave, flanked by two aisles, one on either side, by inscribing itin an equilateral triangle in the manner shown in Fig. 83 ; andthe apertures pierced in this façade will be well proportioned to theprincipal mass if they…
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