An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 427
next above that at the angle of repose. Each ofthese is to be considered, with the mortar in which it is embedded, as a quadrangularprismatic frustum, whose sides all incline towards the centre of the hemisphere at e : now,the upper surfaces of these two bricks form an internal or reentering angle… … bricks slip, they must do so in the line e f; but, in doing so, they must approach eachother; but they are already in contact, therefore they cannot slip. This demonstrationapplies to any greater number of bricks, until the whole course is finished, when thebricks are sustained by their lateral…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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