The science of aesthetics; or, The nature, kinds, laws, and uses of beauty . each side of the centernave but of less height than the nave, flying but-tresses were resorted to, which were carried byarches over the aisles to rest on their pillars orwalls outside. § 179. Further, the circular dome ofrauu.*^™ the Byzantine or Romanesque archi- tecture became in the Gothic thegroined vault. The Roman cross-vault, formed bythe crossing at right angles of two semi-cylindricalvaults, hid four groins meeting at the apex on thesurface of the intersecting vaults. These groinswere at first plain, but in p
The science of aesthetics; or, The nature, kinds, laws, and uses of beauty . each side of the centernave but of less height than the nave, flying but-tresses were resorted to, which were carried byarches over the aisles to rest on their pillars orwalls outside. § 179. Further, the circular dome ofrauu.*^™ the Byzantine or Romanesque archi- tecture became in the Gothic thegroined vault. The Roman cross-vault, formed bythe crossing at right angles of two semi-cylindricalvaults, hid four groins meeting at the apex on thesurface of the intersecting vaults. These groinswere at first plain, but in process of time werecovered by ribs. But the crossing vaults may beformed of segments less than a semi-circle, as in theGothic or pointed style. Still further, as thesegroins or ribs are the supporting parts of the vault,so that all the intervening parts of the vault may, ifdesired, be dispensed with, if they are of sufficientstrength themselves not to be crushed by the in-cumbent weight, and if also themselves adequatelysupported, they may be covered by resting. SPECIAL LAWS 21/ Upon them ; and these coverings may be laid acrossin flat stretches from rib to rib, or may be of otherform convex or concave. The whole interior ap-pearance of the vault may thus be diversified indefi-
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