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Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 78
mparable mosqueat Cordova. A chain of smalllinks, a watch-chain, for ex-ample, freely hanging betweentwo points of support strikesout a catenary curve; this Ga-lileo suggested as the outlinefor an arch in equilibrium; itis adopted for suspensionbridges. The arch, says Mr. Wil-liam P. P. Longfellow… … Church of St. Remy, Rheims, France.Section across buttressed choir. 44 FORM-ARCHES It gave him the means of spanning wide openings, andwhen expanded into the vault, of covering great spaces; ithabituated him to curved lines and surfaces. Helped by it, and
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