Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 208
stance to thewind. Iron is, however, fit for window-bars, and there seems noconstructive reason why we should not have iron traceries, aswell as iron pillars, iron churches, and iron steeples. But Ihave, in the Seven Lamps, given reasons for not consider-ing such structures as architecture at all.… … bars of stone are to be made as slender and as few as they canbe, consistently with their due strength. Let it be required to support the breadth of glass, a, b, Fig.XLV. The tendency of the glass sustaining any force, as oiwind from without, is to bendinto an arch inwards, in the &dotted line,…
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