Architectural Studies in France
Architectural Studies in France
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v.] GEOMETRY OF VAULTING. 105 be the same. This construction would evidently involve some arches, whether longitudinal, diagonal, or transverse, of a variable curvature, as the ellipse.
" A common method of executing the modern Gothic vaulting, especially in plaster, has been to obtain the form of the diagonal ribs, by ordinates from those of the tranverse ribs. The effect of this is, that the entire vault appears as if it consisted of two waggon vaults, crossing at right angles ; and a horizon...tal rod moved from top to bottom, in contact with any pair of opposite arches, will touch the diagonal ribs and the connecting vaulting surfaces throughout.
This is the genuine principle of the Roman and Italian groined vault, but is altogether foreign to the principles of Gothic architec- ture, in which every rib should spring as a separate and independent arch, and in which the elliptic curves produced by this method are totally at variance with the characteristic forms of the style." — Professor Willis on the Construction of the Vaults of the Middle Ages, p.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
v.] GEOMETRY OF VAULTING. 105 be the same. This construction would evidently involve some arches, whether longitudinal, diagonal, or transverse, of a variable curvature, as the ellipse.
" A common method of executing the modern Gothic vaulting, especially in plaster, has been to obtain the form of the diagonal ribs, by ordinates from those of the tranverse ribs. The effect of this is, that the entire vault appears as if it consisted of two waggon vaults, crossing at right angles ; and a horizon...tal rod moved from top to bottom, in contact with any pair of opposite arches, will touch the diagonal ribs and the connecting vaulting surfaces throughout.
This is the genuine principle of the Roman and Italian groined vault, but is altogether foreign to the principles of Gothic architec- ture, in which every rib should spring as a separate and independent arch, and in which the elliptic curves produced by this method are totally at variance with the characteristic forms of the style." — Professor Willis on the Construction of the Vaults of the Middle Ages, p.
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