This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...gothic cathedrals present us with a thousand examples of the cylindrical stem, from which they derive one of their chief characteristics. Here the cylinders are grouped and superimposed, rising from the ground to the vault, where they expand into elegant ribs. The clustered columns of our cathedrals, reminds ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...gothic cathedrals present us with a thousand examples of the cylindrical stem, from which they derive one of their chief characteristics. Here the cylinders are grouped and superimposed, rising from the ground to the vault, where they expand into elegant ribs. The clustered columns of our cathedrals, reminds us of minarets in Oriental regions, bold cylinders rising from earth to heaven, from whence, doubtless, the gothic style is derived. The cylindrical form is rarely met with in the pottery of the ancients. A few specimens are found in museums. It is little used at the present day, notwithstanding its simplicity, and, probably, on account of its simplicity. II. CONOIDS. "When the diameter of a cylindroid is less at the summit than at its base, it is termed a Conoid, whether it be circular, octagonal, or square: we only regard the section. We may consider the conoid as the symbol of stability in architecture, and in the ceramic art. The column of Psestum is the most striking and best known example. The Egyptians have bequeathed us admirable monuments with inclined sides in the pylones of Philse, the great temple of Edfou, the temple of Dandour: to this form, is correctly attributed immense durability. Besides its qualities of strength and resistance, this inclination has an aspect that charms, but the effect of which, we cannot analyze. Nothing can be more charming than the conoid towers of Civita Yecchia, whose base is washed by the sea. The angle of incidence tends to disperse the rays of the sun, which appear to be at once more luminous and softer reflected by these walls, the asperities of which cast no shadow, and whose inclined masses receive in the shade an azure hue from the reflections of the sky. From measurements recently made, ...
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