The stones of Venice : [With appendices, additional notes, and "Venetian index."] (1894)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes & Lauriat · leaf 245
ind the subject of the masonry of the pointed archdiscussed at length, and the conclusion deduced, that of allpossible forms of the pointed arch (a certain weight of materialbf ing given), that generically represented at e, Fig. XV., isthe strongest. In fact, the reader can see in a moment thatth^… … i pose a gable built of stone, as at a, and pressed upon fromwithout by a weight in the direction of the arrow, clearly it would be liable to fall in, aaat h. To prevent this, wemake a pointed arch of it, asat c ; and now it cannot fallin wards, but if pressed uponfrom above may give way out-wards,…
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