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 350
teresting to have so good a proof of its antiquity. As the hook of the verge is in its highest position after the discharge is made, it is plain that the downhauler must be replaced on the hook by a long pole with a fork at the end, or by some such contrivance. The only part of the machine not… … was knocked away by a blow with a mallet, as in Fig. 30 ; and was probably arranged upon the principle of a carpenter's hook, which will resist an enormous pressure applied parallel to its stem at the extremity of its arm, but is detached by the slightest blow upon the end of its stem f. thirteenth…
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