Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : Ticknor and Co. · leaf 22
laws of statics do not j^ermit it.In this latter case every stone must have a determinate function. 6 LECTURES ON ARGHITECTURE. When the Greeks had to erect a cella behind a portico, forexample, they formed a kind of frame-work of stone which theyfilled in with blocks, cut parallel only on the two… … Fia. 1.—Early Greek Masonry. this means they were enabled to utilise much material whichthey must have rejected if they had wished to make waUing oflevel courses. Figm-e 1 will explain what we are describing. The plan ofthe cella having been marked out, and tlie foundations laid,the corner antse A…
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