Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 79
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 … Curve of suspended chain. spurred by the new wants of the complex Roman civilization, heenlarged the scale of his buildings and greatly increased the in-tricacy of their plans. He used his new combinations with a bold-ness and fertility of invention that have been the wonder of theworld from that…
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