Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa., New York, Flood and Vincent · leaf 186
tration on this head, because its peculiarand unusual exhibition of a section of the actual con-struction shows the weight of masonry which presses onthe arch. The weight is greater here than was usually 170 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. 171 the case, but the illustration serves its purpose. Thiswill… … Fig. 95.—Wells Cathedral. through a preliminary study of the system of vaultingemployed by the Romanesque (p. 113). Mathematically considered, we know that the roundarch is a perfectly stable form, but physically con-sidered, the resistance on the sides must be sufficient tokeep its blocks in…
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