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 285

An illustration from Facsimile of the sketch-book of Wilars de Honecort, an architect of the thirteenth century : illustrated by commentaries and descriptions, 1859, leaf 285 — he sus- pending hook, in the two lower ones are inserted the ends of two other pieces curved and set back to back, in such a manner that by raising the looped-piece the upper ends of the other pieces will be drawn closer together and their lower ends expanded. If a square hole, wider at the bottom… … the nut through a hole in the frame below, and O * Figure 25. has a load attached to its lower extremity. Besson, in 1569, gives in Plate 38 a ' Perrault, in his translation of Vitruvius, (p. 298,) described certain stones which he found in the ruins and Piranesi, have collected all the known forms…

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