. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. DIVISION OF WELLS ^vvi-mNmvAmmmm-m\\^^^^^^^^^^ Fig 127S. CIIVII !sn AT WELLS. 3 U 1026 PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE. Boor III. Where it is (letcrmined that the walls shall occupy one-third of the section of a building,no figure is so well calculated for such a distribution as the equilateral triangle ; it enablestiie architect at once to limit and fix the proportions of his design ; hence its uiiiversaJapplication : and the mysteri
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. DIVISION OF WELLS ^vvi-mNmvAmmmm-m\\^^^^^^^^^^ Fig 127S. CIIVII !sn AT WELLS. 3 U 1026 PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE. Boor III. Where it is (letcrmined that the walls shall occupy one-third of the section of a building,no figure is so well calculated for such a distribution as the equilateral triangle ; it enablestiie architect at once to limit and fix the proportions of his design ; hence its uiiiversaJapplication : and the mysterious qualities attached to it by the freemasons no doubt arosefrom the extraordinary facility it afforded them in setting out their several works. Wliatcan be more simple or more beautiful than the distribution of this edifice? Within a circlea hexagon is set out, the pcipendicular sides of which mark the outer faces of the buttresses ;the junctions of the angles, by forming a base to every two sides, produce the twoequilateral triangles, which sub-divided not only enable us to arrange tlie other portionsaccurately, but also to measure with the greatest nicety their rela
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