. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. F—B. Bent of the force communicated to the 1st flying-buttresses. F. B. P. C. Parallelogram of forces. C—F. Direction of the combined forces. f—b. Bent of the force communicated from the 1st to the 2nd Flying- buttress. p—f. The direct downward force of the gravity of the 2nd pinnacle. e—f. The active direction of the combined forces after leaving the 2nd buttress, and more and more inflected till it reaches the ground at ff. ON BUTTRESSES, PINNACLES, &e. By Alfred Bartho
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. F—B. Bent of the force communicated to the 1st flying-buttresses. F. B. P. C. Parallelogram of forces. C—F. Direction of the combined forces. f—b. Bent of the force communicated from the 1st to the 2nd Flying- buttress. p—f. The direct downward force of the gravity of the 2nd pinnacle. e—f. The active direction of the combined forces after leaving the 2nd buttress, and more and more inflected till it reaches the ground at ff. ON BUTTRESSES, PINNACLES, &e. By Alfred Bartholomew, Architect.* Were it the author's wish to prove by one example more striking I'lan any other, the falling off of science in the absolute practice of ;ircl)iteclure, in these times of pretended superiority, in which the ill-taugbt pr;ictitioner who wishes to pursue the integrity of his art, is obliged, after he is turned adrift by his master, to re-educate himself as far as he is ab!e, by picliing up whatever scraps of scientific infor- mation may fall in his way, instead of receiving from his master at once the full depth of skill whicli (he free-masons for centuries handed down from father to son, from master to pupil, without diminution pnd without reserve,—he would fearlessly instance the most singular ad- vancement whicl) the mid-eval architects seem, by nothing short of inspiration, to have made in the most delicate acquaintance with Architclural DynamicB ; a knowledge which taught them at once to unite in their abutments, strength with economy, uje with beauty: wliile in our ignorance we fancy that strength and economy are ene- mies of eacli other and tliat use and beauty are of necessity opposite qualities. This refined intelligence taught them to render every ne- cessary part of their constructions such exquisite ornaments, that the ignorant modern looking at them, without knowing their use, fancies them to be merely ornamental. They first began in the
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