Note 204 — Chapter II · (continued 2)
Walter Armstrong translation
M. A. Choisy, well known by his Essays on L'Art de bâtir chez les Romains, shows that the same method was constantly used by the Byzantine architects. See his Note sur la Construction des Voûtes sans cintrage pendant la Période byzantine (Annales des Ponts et Chausées, 1876, second period, vol. xii.). See also Mr. Fergusson's account of the erection of a huge stone dome without centering of any kind, by an illiterate Maltese builder, at Mousta, near Valetta (Handbook of Architecture, Second Edition, vol. iv. p. 34).—Ed.