. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. inet work, andrepresented by its means figures and landscapes. See Buhl Work ; Inlaid Wohk ;Parquetry. Mason. An artificer who practises the science of cutting and setting stones in buildingwalls. Formerly the workman who worked the stone was called a free-stone mason,hence the term freemason ; while the man that set the stone was called a roughmason. The terra master mason was during the media-val period equivalent to the moremodern term architect.
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. inet work, andrepresented by its means figures and landscapes. See Buhl Work ; Inlaid Wohk ;Parquetry. Mason. An artificer who practises the science of cutting and setting stones in buildingwalls. Formerly the workman who worked the stone was called a free-stone mason,hence the term freemason ; while the man that set the stone was called a roughmason. The terra master mason was during the media-val period equivalent to the moremodern term architect. He designed and carried out the monastic, cathedral, orregal buildings. Later, the designer taking the name of surveyor, the master aiasonbecame the head of his trade. Masonry. (Fr.) The science of combining and joining stcnes for the formation of walls and other parts in constructing ^__„ buildings. When applied in the —-r^construction of domes, groins, and ~~ X circular arches, it is difficult and ~7 complicated, and is dependent on a thorough knowledge of descriptive 4^^_l_, ^-^ ^.„__,^^,^^^yj<™-^*^ geometry. U-Ji^V^ . X ^^ C. Among the ancients, several sorts {of masonry were in use, which aredescribed by Vitruvius as follows, -in the ciglith chapter of his second irbook:—The different species of--, walls, he observes, ave rcti- ^ T^->^>[^VwV^^^^^^?T^*^ cidatum {net-\\k&) {fig. \ A), a ^- C^ViVl^v uUrV .^^^^^ method now in general use, and the 1^ <:h ,^i 3^1/-<TR^^T^^^T^~ incertum (B), which is the ancient ^- - •, rf^^Ps^^^^c^:^mode. The reticulatum is very- ; - --^^-^^?^TVtI^:^^^^^ very -? ; -,--^-^^-y^Y{r^r-T^beautiful, but liable to split, fromthe beds of the stones being un stable, and its deficiency in respect _:_^ i. lj^\;::^l^:-^ZLiz^:Mi^:^^^iE^^^^^^t^^i^^ of bond. The incertum, on the con-trary, course over course, and the ^=- ^^l^. whole bonded together, does not present so beautiful an appearance, though strongertluin the reticulat
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