Facsimile of the sketch-book of Wilars de Honecort, an architect of the thirteenth century : illustrated by commentaries and descriptions (1859)
Villard, de Honnecourt, active 13th century, Lassus, Jean Baptiste Antoine, 1807-1857, Darcel, Alfred, 1818-1893, Quicherat, Jules Étienne Joseph, 1814-1882, Willis, Robert, 1799-1878 · London : John Henry and James Parker · leaf 242
ION OF THE PLATES. Both Quicherat and Lassus suppose that the objects at each corner, which I have viewed as the actual corner-stones, are boards carefully squared, and having the diagonal line drawn upon their surfaces ; the latter ingeniously explains the object of the process to be to determine… … Figure 11. obtained will be a true square ; the four points marked as the prolongation of the diagonals at equal distances from the corners of the boards merely mark the angles of the ambulatories. — (L.)" Quicherat well observes that such proceed- ings as we are now considering must lead to…
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