1524
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ENGINEERING.
Book IX.
but circles could not be placed above and under each other, or side by side, withoutinterstices occurring, and the equilateral triangle, or a figure compounded of it, is the onlyform that will admit of it being so arranged.
The interior and exterior division of the choir at Winchester exhibits two styles; thelatter is a fine example of the decorated elegance to which architecture had arrived at thecommencement of the sixteenth century.
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Fig. 3038.