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chap. it. strongest section is opposed to the strain to which his
work is exposed Upon the same principle, an archi-
tect, when employed to imitate the frame of cage-work,
would be tempted to execute his mullions, so that
when measured from back to front they should be
much deeper than when measured across; a precaution
which will not be deemed superfluous when it is
considered how brittle a material free-stone is when
reduced to small dimensions. The consideration of
lio-ht would lead to the same determination. It is
Applied to obvious, that a mullion, whose cross section is oblong,
the Mullions. °
and which is placed with the longest line of that
section at right angles to the glass, will interrupt less
light than if, containing the same quantity of stone, its
shape were cylindrical. In yielding to these con-
curring motives, the first inventor of Gothic windows
is justified by the most illustrious examples of archi-
tectural invention, in deviating so far from his original,
as to represent a round willow rod by a mullion, whose
cross section is oblong.
The first idea of a man accustomed to work in stone,
would be to make this cross section an oblong- rect-
piate xx. angle, perhaps a double square, as in Plate XX.
Figs. 1, and 5, compared to Fig. 4, which exhibits the
ESSAY ON
chap. it. strongest section is opposed to the strain to which his
work is exposed Upon the same principle, an archi-
tect, when employed to imitate the frame of cage-work,
would be tempted to execute his mullions, so that
when measured from back to front they should be
much deeper than when measured across; a precaution
which will not be deemed superfluous when it is
considered how brittle a material free-stone is when
reduced to small dimensions. The consideration of
lio-ht would lead to the same determination. It is
Applied to obvious, that a mullion, whose cross section is oblong,
the Mullions. °
and which is placed with the longest line of that
section at right angles to the glass, will interrupt less
light than if, containing the same quantity of stone, its
shape were cylindrical. In yielding to these con-
curring motives, the first inventor of Gothic windows
is justified by the most illustrious examples of archi-
tectural invention, in deviating so far from his original,
as to represent a round willow rod by a mullion, whose
cross section is oblong.
The first idea of a man accustomed to work in stone,
would be to make this cross section an oblong- rect-
piate xx. angle, perhaps a double square, as in Plate XX.
Figs. 1, and 5, compared to Fig. 4, which exhibits the